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PROGRAM:

NAME

pdfjadetex - PDF output from JadeTeX

SYNOPSIS

pdfjadetex [options] [commands]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page was derived from the manual page for pdfTeX and is not meant to be
exhaustive. The complete documentation for this version of TeX can be found in the info
file or manual Web2C: A TeX implementation.

pdfjadeTeX is a version of TeX that can create PDF files as well as DVI files.

The typical use of pdfjadeTeX is with a pregenerated formats for which PDF output has been
enabled. The pdfjadetex command uses the equivalent of the plain JadeTeX format.

pdfjadeTeX's handling of its command-line arguments is similar to that of LaTeX.

OPTIONS

This version of pdfjadeTeX understands the following command line options.

--fmt format
Use format as the name of the format to be used, instead of the name by which
pdfjadeTeX was called or a %& line.

--help Print help message and exit.

--ini Be pdfinitex, for dumping formats; this is implicitly true if the program is called
as pdfinitex.

--interaction mode
Sets the interaction mode. The mode can be one of batchmode, nonstopmode,
scrollmode, and errorstopmode. The meaning of these modes is the same as that of
the corresponding \commands.

--ipc Send DVI or PDF output to a socket as well as the usual output file. Whether this
option is available is the choice of the installer.

--ipc-start
As --ipc, and starts the server at the other end as well. Whether this option is
available is the choice of the installer.

--kpathsea-debug bitmask
Sets path searching debugging flags according to the bitmask. See the Kpathsea
manual for details.

--maketex fmt
Enable mktexfmt, where fmt must be one of tex or tfm.

--no-maketex fmt
Disable mktexfmt, where fmt must be one of tex or tfm.

--output-comment string
Use string for the DVI file comment instead of the date.

--progname name
Pretend to be program name. This affects both the format used and the search
paths.

--shell-escape
Enable the \write18{command} construct. The command can be any Bourne shell
command. This construct is normally disallowed for security reasons.

--version
Print version information and exit.

ENVIRONMENT

See the Kpathsearch library documentation (the `Path specifications' node) for precise
details of how the environment variables are used. The kpsewhich utility can be used to
query the values of the variables.

One caveat: In most pdfjadeTeX formats, you cannot use ~ in a filename you give directly
to pdfjadeTeX, because ~ is an active character, and hence is expanded, not taken as part
of the filename. Other programs, such as Metafont, do not have this problem.

TEXMFOUTPUT
Normally, pdfjadeTeX puts its output files in the current directory. If any output
file cannot be opened there, it tries to open it in the directory specified in the
environment variable TEXMFOUTPUT. There is no default value for that variable.
For example, if you say tex paper and the current directory is not writable, if
TEXMFOUTPUT has the value /tmp, pdfjadeTeX attempts to create /tmp/paper.log (and
/tmp/paper.pdf, if any output is produced.)

TEXINPUTS
Search path for \input and \openin files. This should probably start with ``.'',
so that user files are found before system files.

TEXFONTS
Search path for font metric (.tfm) files.

TEXFORMATS
Search path for format files.

TEXPOOL
search path for pdfinitex internal strings.

TEXEDIT
Command template for switching to editor. The default, usually vi, is set when
pdfjadeTeX is compiled.

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