[latexrefman] filecontents

[Vincent Belaïche]

One more thing — still translating, and discovering controversial
statements — is the following:

   \immediate\openout\myfile=\jobname.jh   % \jobname is current file name

I think that \jobname is not the current file name, but the main file
name, or any string passed to the --jobname command line option
argument, if any.

  V.

Le sam. 14 mars 2020 à 21:39, Vincent Belaïche
<vincent.belaiche at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> 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 ...