From Fabrice.Popineau at supelec.fr  Thu Jul 19 00:39:14 2001
From: Fabrice.Popineau at supelec.fr (Fabrice Popineau)
Date: Fri Feb 18 15:06:19 2005
Subject: [tex-pretest] \jobname
Message-ID: <ofqheub1.fsf@supelec.fr>

Before I spend time on it, does anybody knows why :

D:\tmp>tex "&latex" "\input foo.tex"

produces foo.dvi

and

D:\tmp>tex "&latex" "\renewcommand\encodingdefault{T1}\selectfont\input foo.tex"

produces texput.dvi? Shouldn't jobname be set accordingly to the
first filename \input?

-- 
Fabrice


From David.Kastrup at neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de  Thu Jul 19 12:32:23 2001
From: David.Kastrup at neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (David Kastrup)
Date: Fri Feb 18 15:06:19 2005
Subject: [tex-pretest] Re: \jobname
In-Reply-To: <ofqheub1.fsf@supelec.fr> (message from Fabrice Popineau on 19
	Jul 2001 00:39:14 +0200)
References: <ofqheub1.fsf@supelec.fr>
Message-ID: <200107191032.f6JAWNi08155@kumpel.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>

   From: Fabrice Popineau <Fabrice.Popineau@supelec.fr>
   Date: 19 Jul 2001 00:39:14 +0200

   Before I spend time on it, does anybody knows why :

   D:\tmp>tex "&latex" "\input foo.tex"

   produces foo.dvi

   and

   D:\tmp>tex "&latex" "\renewcommand\encodingdefault{T1}\selectfont\input foo.tex"

   produces texput.dvi? Shouldn't jobname be set accordingly to the
   first filename \input?

Yes, unless something forces it to be determined at an earlier point
of time.  In this case, \selectfont produces diagnostic output that
goes to the log file.  The log file has to be opened, and it is named
\jobname.log.

David Kastrup                                     Phone: +49-234-32-25570
Email: dak@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de       Fax: +49-234-32-14209
Institut f?r Neuroinformatik, Universit?tsstr. 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany


From Fabrice.Popineau at supelec.fr  Thu Jul 19 13:39:29 2001
From: Fabrice.Popineau at supelec.fr (Fabrice Popineau)
Date: Fri Feb 18 15:06:19 2005
Subject: [tex-pretest] Re: \jobname
In-Reply-To: <200107191032.f6JAWNi08155@kumpel.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> (David Kastrup's message of "Thu, 19 Jul 2001 12:32:23 +0200 (MEST)")
References: <ofqheub1.fsf@supelec.fr>
	<200107191032.f6JAWNi08155@kumpel.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Message-ID: <elrdcfm6.fsf@supelec.fr>

* David Kastrup <David.Kastrup@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

> Yes, unless something forces it to be determined at an earlier point
> of time.  In this case, \selectfont produces diagnostic output that
> goes to the log file.  The log file has to be opened, and it is
> named \jobname.log.

Thanks for the explanation (and sorry for the question!)

Fabrice


From raichle at Informatik.Uni-Stuttgart.DE  Thu Jul 19 13:52:34 2001
From: raichle at Informatik.Uni-Stuttgart.DE (Bernd Raichle)
Date: Fri Feb 18 15:06:19 2005
Subject: [tex-pretest] Re: \jobname
In-Reply-To: <200107191032.f6JAWNi08155@kumpel.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
References: <ofqheub1.fsf@supelec.fr>
	<200107191032.f6JAWNi08155@kumpel.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Message-ID: <15190.51714.199649.314877@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>

On Thursday, 19 July 2001 12:32:23 +0200,
David Kastrup <David.Kastrup@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
 >    From: Fabrice Popineau <Fabrice.Popineau@supelec.fr>
 >    Date: 19 Jul 2001 00:39:14 +0200
[... \jobname problem ...]
 > 
 > Yes, unless something forces it to be determined at an earlier point
 > of time.  In this case, \selectfont produces diagnostic output that
 > goes to the log file.  The log file has to be opened, and it is named
 > \jobname.log.

The primitive \newfont used by \selectfont opens the log file if it is
not opened yet to be sure that error messages can occur later on.
When opening the log file, the job name gets fixed---if their was no
input file name until now, it gets fixed to "texput" (cf. tex.web:
|open_log_file|, |new_font|).  The same occurs if \selectfont produces
output to the log file.

-bernd