PTEX

Section: User Commands (1) Updated: December 2007 Local index Up

NAME

pTeX - a patched version of TeX which supports Japanese

SYNOPSIS

ptex [option] texfile

DESCRIPTION

: : ptex [option] &format texfile

-fmt=NAME use NAME instead of program name or %&format. -halt-on-error stop processing at the first error [-no]-file-line-error disable/enable file:line:error style messages -ini be iniptex. -interaction=STRING set interaction mode (STRING=batchmode|nonstopmode|

: scrollmode|errorstopmode)

-jobname=STRING set the job name to STRING -kanji=STRING set Japanese encoding (STRING=euc|jis|sjis) -kpathsea-debug=NUMBER set path searching debugging flags according to

: the bits of NUMBER

[-no]-mktex=FMT disable/enable mktexFMT generation (FMT=tex/tfm) -mltex enable MLTeX extensions such as \charsubdef -output-comment=STRING use STRING for DVI file comment instead of date -output-directory=DIR use DIR as the directory to write files to [-no]-parse-first-line disable/enable parsing of the first line of the

: input file

-progname=STRING set program (and fmt) name to STRING -recorder enable filename recorder [-no]-shell-escape disable/enable \write18{SHELL COMMAND} -src-specials insert source specials into the DVI file -src-specials=WHERE insert source specials in certain places of

: the DVI file. WHERE is a comma-separated value list: cr display hbox math par parend vbox

-translate-file=TCXNAME use the TCX file TCXNAME -help print this message and exit. -version print version information and exit.

REPORTING BUGS

Email bug reports to www-ptex@ascii.co.jp.

kpathsea version 3.5.6 Copyright (C) 1999 D.E. Knuth. Kpathsea is copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. There is NO warranty. Redistribution of this software is covered by the terms of both the pTeX copyright and the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the files named COPYING and the pTeX source. Primary author of TeX: D.E. Knuth. Kpathsea written by Karl Berry and others.