[tex-live] %& first line parsing different jobname
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Wed Jun 10 00:46:42 CEST 2009
On 9 June 2009 T T wrote:
> Going back to the original question: I understand that this limited
> parsing of the %&-line is a feature, not a bug, am I right?
Certainly! The first two characters of the "%&-line" had not been
chosen by accident. The first one is unavoidable, any character with
another \catcode than 14 would break everything. The second character
is "&", which has a special meaning on the command line:
tex &latex myfile.tex
The program "tex" loads the format file "latex.fmt" and then executes
"myfile.tex". The character "&" has a special meaning here, and if a
line begins with "%&", I don't expect that anything else but the name
of a format file is expected.
Other people might have other expectations.
Regards,
Reinhard
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