[latexrefman] pdflatex -jobname=aa "\RequirePackage[draft]@{graphicx@}\input@{aa.tex@}"

[Vincent Belaïche]

Ooops… I had missed the final paragraph why there is --jobname=aa, I
was too quick in writing that it is useless. Nevertheless, this makes
one more reason for using \PassOptionsToPackage instead of
\RequirePackage !

  V.

Le mer. 29 avr. 2020 à 19:01, Vincent Belaïche
<vincent.belaiche at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> One more thing. TeX Live (TL) and MiKTeX (MT) seem to have some
> difference in their heuristics.
>
> Still with some basic document temp.tex, if I type (note the space at
> the beginning).
>
>  pdflatex " \input" temp
>
> with MT, the first argument is deemed to be code although it does not
> begin with a «\», while TL will bark at not finding the file named "
> .tex".
>
>
>
>
> Le mer. 29 avr. 2020 à 18:57, Vincent Belaïche
> <vincent.belaiche at gmail.com> a écrit :
> >
> > Maybe it would also be worth mentionning that when there are several
> > arguments containing LaTeX code, an implicit space separator is in
> > between them.
> >
> > So if you have a document temp.tex
> >
> > ================================================================================
> > \documentclass{minimal}
> > \begin{document}
> > Bonjour\separator tous.
> > \end{document}
> > ================================================================================
> >
> > and you type
> >
> >   pdflatex "\def\sepearator{" "}\input" temp
> >
> > then you get in the PDF output this:
> >
> > ================================================================================
> > Bonjour tous.
> > ================================================================================
> >
> > Le mer. 29 avr. 2020 à 18:35, Vincent Belaïche
> > <vincent.belaiche at gmail.com> a écrit :
> > >
> > > Sorry the email was sent w/o my completing it:
> > >
> > > Of course it is best not to use these special characters, but
> > > sometimes they are forced by other constrains like for ~ which is
> > > commonly used in version tracking systems.
> > >
> > >   V.
> > >
> > > Le mer. 29 avr. 2020 à 18:31, Vincent Belaïche
> > > <vincent.belaiche at gmail.com> a écrit :
> > > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > This example is in node Command line input.
> > > >
> > > > There are two things:
> > > >
> > > > * first, I think that \PassOptionsToPackage{draft}{graphicx} is safer,
> > > > especially when order of package loading matters.
> > > > * second -jobname=aa is useless here, and as such brings confusion
> > > >
> > > > Finally, I think that there are two other special effect of interest
> > > >
> > > > * changing the \today date :
> > > >    pdflatex "\year=1789 \month=7 \day=14 \input" BastilleDay.tex
> > > >
> > > > * overcoming some special characters in the root filename, like this
> > > > to accept ~ in the name :
> > > >   pdflatex "\relax{\catcode126=11 \toks0{\input" temp~1 "
> > > > }\expandafter}\the\toks0 "
> > > > a more complete example can be found in the run_tex function of the
> > > > bash script texi2dvi
> > > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/tree/util/texi2dvi
> > > > Of course
> > > >
> > > >   V.