<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all! I'm new here, so apologize in advance if I choose the wrong mailing list. 
<span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-">I looked through the archive and found that to some extent this has already been discussed here: <a href="https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2014-June/035499.html">https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2014-June/035499.html</a> "Passing a valid Windows path and file name to *TeX in TeXlive". At the end of this thread 
Akira Kakuto wrote:</span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-">
</span></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><pre><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">In TeX Live 2015, not this year,  all of the following work on windows:

pdftex test-test
pdftex test-t~1
pdftex c:/somedirectory/test-t~1
pdftex c:/somedi~1/test-t~1
pdftex c:\somedi~1\test-t~1</span></pre></blockquote><div>
<span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-">but then wrote that
<span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">'/' </span>

should be used </span></span>instead of <span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">'\'</span> 
<span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-">even on windows. 
<span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-">Yes it really works thank you. 
<span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="">Unfortunately this only works for absolute paths (e.g. <span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">C:\path\to\tex\file.tex</span>), but does not work with relative paths (e.g. <span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">.\tex\file.tex</span>). Would you consider to implement of such a possibility?</span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title=""><br></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="">
<span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-">Strange, but in some situations relative paths work, while in others it does not work. For example this will work however in 
<span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title=""><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-">-output-directory</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>

I use relative path with Windows separators <span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">'\'</span>:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title=""><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><br></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-left:40px"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title=""><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-">$ latex -interaction=batchmode -halt-on-error -output-directory=".\Tex\local" "./Tex/test.tex"</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title=""><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><br></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title=""><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-">but this one does not work (and no error is produced):<br></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title=""><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><br></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-left:40px"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title=""><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-">
<span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title=""><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-">$ latex -interaction=batchmode -halt-on-error -output-directory=".\Tex\local" ".\Tex\test.tex"</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-left:40px"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title=""><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title=""><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><br></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title=""><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title=""><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">The only change is </span>
<span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title=""><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title=""><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-">".\Tex\test.tex"</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <font face="arial,sans-serif">instead of 
<span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title=""><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title=""><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-">"./Tex/test.tex"<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">. 
<span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-">If I specify the file using an absolute path, both options will work ( with<span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"> "\"</span> and <span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">"/" <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">separators.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title=""><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title=""><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><font face="arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title=""><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title=""><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title=""><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title=""><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><font face="arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title=""><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title=""><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Thank you!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-translation" lang="en"><span title="" class="gmail-"><span class="gmail-tlid-translation gmail-transl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