[latexrefman] jobname

[Vincent Belaïche]

Sorry Jim,  the French for kernel is noyau, not noyeau, I just mispelled it.
  V.

Le sam. 14 août 2021 à 13:52, Vincent Belaïche
<vincent.belaiche at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> Please have a look at this
> :https://groups.google.com/g/comp.text.tex/c/h-SKJ3gN56U
>
> I think that \documentclass and \RequirePackage freeze the \jobname by
> expanding it, and that is why the jobname is texput in command lines
> such as « pdflatex '\documentclass{article}\input' 'body' ». However,
> I have not confirmed yet this assumption by looking at their
> definitions in the kernel source code.
> I reworked however the jobname node, as attached.
>
> Jim this is again some translation work for you.  Notably
> * \jobname is not a macro, it is a primitive, and this has some consequences,
> * I pushed all the gory details to the end of node for the sake of
> progressivity into this matter
> * below I prepared some French/English glossary to help you
>
> - figer.= to freeze
> - dérouter = to confuse/puzzle
> - développer = to expand
> - guillemets anglais = quote
> - autonome = on its own
> - invite = prompt
> - noyeau = kernel
> - journal = log
> - ouvrage = job
> - en sous-main = under the hood
>
>
> Le sam. 14 août 2021 à 00:12, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> a écrit :
> >
> >     pdflatex '\documentclass{article}\usepackage{lipsum}\input titi'
> >
> >     and the jobname was named texput, not titi.
> >
> > The jobname for such LaTeX input was never "titi". As of TL 2020, it's
> > "texput"; before that, it was "article". As would be expected. -k
> >