[latexrefman] filecontents

[Vincent Belaïche]

One more thing is the following — I just realized that I had not
translated « \openin & \openout » and such nodes — concerning writing to
a file what is output in case of non ASCII character.

In the example of node « \openin & \openout », if I replace this :

    \write\presidentsfile@{1 Washington, George@}

by

    \write\presidentsfile@{1 Bonaparte, Louis-Napoléon@}

I think that depending of whether you use pdflatex or xelatex you won't
get the same thing. I think that pdflatex will change the « é » to
« \'e » assuming the source file is in latin9.

Shouldn't we document also how non ASCII characters and macros are
handled in a \write command. I think there is also some sort of
\protected at write in the LaTeX kernel, not sure whether we have to go to
such details.

  V.

PS : Louis-Napoléon Bonarparte was the nephew of Napoléon Bonaparte, and
was the first president of France, but then he made a coup, that is why
IIe République ended after its first president.

Le sam. 14 mars 2020 à 19:40, Vincent Belaïche
<vincent.belaiche at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> Hello Karl,
>
> >> is launch with an -outputdir argument.
> >
>
> [...]
>
> >
> > I made some more changes to latex2e.texi in this regard. Thanks. -k
> >
> > P.S. Maybe time to make another release of the French? It's been a
> > couple years ...
>
> You are correct, I thought I need to catch up before, because there are
> still quite a number of new nodes which I did not translate into the
> French version. Well, on the other hand a release allows people to
> feedback on what is already on the table.
>
> BTW, concerning this statement:
>
>    If @var{number} is outside the range from 0 to at tie{}15 or if no file
>    of that number is open, or if the file has ended, then @code{\read}
>    will take input from the terminal.
>
> I think that this is not the case with the \nonstopmode or \batchmode
> commands — or also the --interaction=nonstopmode or
> --interaction=batchmode arguments.
>
>   V.
>
> Le mer. 11 mars 2020 à 23:54, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> a écrit :
> >
> >     is launch with an -outputdir argument.
> >
> > Yes. The -output-directory directory replaces the "current directory"
> > for output, when it is specified. This happens at the engine level and
> > cannot be overridden or altered by TeX macros.
> >
> > I made some more changes to latex2e.texi in this regard. Thanks. -k
> >
> > P.S. Maybe time to make another release of the French? It's been a
> > couple years ...