NAME
etex, einitex, evirtex - extended TeX
SYNOPSIS
etex [options] [commands]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The com-
plete documentation for this version of TeX can be found in
the info file or manual Web2C: A TeX implementation.
e-TeX is the first concrete result of an international
research & development project, the NTS Project, which was
established under the aegis of DANTE e.V. during 1992. The
aims of the project are to perpetuate and develop the spirit
and philosophy of TeX, whilst respecting Knuth's wish that
TeX should remain frozen.
e-TeX can be used in two different modes: in compatibility
mode it is supposed to be completely interchangable with
standard TeX. In extended mode several new primitives are
added that facilitate (among other things) bidirectional
typesetting.
An extended mode format is generated by prefixing the name
of the source file for the format with an asterisk (*).
Such formats are often prefixed with an `e', hence etex as
the extended version of tex and elatex as the extended ver-
sion of latex. However, eplain is an exception to this
rule.
The einitex and evirtex commands are e-TeX's analogues to
the initex and virtex commands. In this installation, they
are symlinks to the etex executable.
e-TeX's handling of its command-line arguments is similar to
that of TeX.
OPTIONS
This version of e-TeX understands the following command line
options.
--efmt format
Use format as the name of the format to be used,
instead of the name by which e-TeX was called or a %&
line.
--help
Print help message and exit.
--ini
Be einitex, for dumping formats; this is implicitly
true if the program is called as einitex.
--interaction mode
Sets the interaction mode. The mode can be one of
batchmode, nonstopmode, scrollmode, and errorstopmode.
The meaning of these modes is the same as that of the
corresponding \commands.
--ipc
Send DVI output to a socket as well as the usual output
file. Whether this option is available is the choice
of the installer.
--ipc-start
As --ipc, and starts the server at the other end as
well. Whether this option is available is the choice
of the installer.
--kpathsea-debug bitmask
Sets path searching debugging flags according to the
bitmask. See the Kpathsea manual for details.
--maketex fmt
Enable mktexfmt, where fmt must be one of tex or tfm.
--mltex
Enable MLTeX extensions.
--no-maketex fmt
Disable mktexfmt, where fmt must be one of tex or tfm.
--output-comment string
Use string for the DVI file comment instead of the
date.
--progname name
Pretend to be program name. This affects both the for-
mat used and the search paths.
--shell-escape
Enable the \write18{command} construct. The command
can be any Bourne shell command. This construct is
normally disallowed for security reasons.
--translate-file tcxname
Use the tcxname translation table.
--version
Print version information and exit.
ENVIRONMENT
See the Kpathsearch library documentation (the `Path
specifications' node) for precise details of how the
environment variables are used. The kpsewhich utility can
be used to query the values of the variables.
One caveat: In most e-TeX formats, you cannot use ~ in a
filename you give directly to e-TeX, because ~ is an active
character, and hence is expanded, not taken as part of the
filename. Other programs, such as Metafont, do not have
this problem.
TEXMFOUTPUT
Normally, e-TeX puts its output files in the current
directory. If any output file cannot be opened there,
it tries to open it in the directory specified in the
environment variable TEXMFOUTPUT. There is no default
value for that variable. For example, if you say tex
paper and the current directory is not writable, if
TEXMFOUTPUT has the value /tmp, e-TeX attempts to
create /tmp/paper.log (and /tmp/paper.dvi, if any out-
put is produced.)
TEXINPUTS
Search path for \input and \openin files. This should
probably start with ``.'', so that user files are found
before system files. An empty path component will be
replaced with the paths defined in the texmf.cnf file.
For example, set TEXINPUTS to ".:/home/usr/tex:" to
prepend the current direcory and ``/home/user/tex'' to
the standard search path.
TEXFONTS
Search path for font metric (.tfm) files.
TEXFORMATS
Search path for format files.
TEXPOOL
search path for einitex internal strings.
TEXEDIT
Command template for switching to editor. The default,
usually vi, is set when e-TeX is compiled.
FILES
The location of the files mentioned below varies from system
to system. Use the kpsewhich utility to find their loca-
tions.
etex.pool
Encoded text of e-TeX's messages.
texfonts.map
Filename mapping definitions.
*.tfm
Metric files for e-TeX's fonts.
*.efmt
Predigested e-TeX format (.efmt) files.
BUGS
This version of e-TeX fails to trap arithmetic overflow when
dimensions are added or subtracted. Cases where this occurs
are rare, but when it does the generated DVI file will be
invalid.
SEE ALSO
tex(1), mf(1), undump(1).
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