Thanks. On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 2:37 PM Gavin Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > Caution: External email. > > > On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 04:12:21PM -0500, Jonathan Dushoff wrote: > > Thanks for responding! > > > > etex, pdftex and pdflatex all seem to take the jobname argument, which > > may be what's wanted. Alternatively, you could consider mentioning > > briefly in the documentation that -o simply moves the output file. > > I've added an extra message in a recent commit. I don't think it's > worth mentioning in the documentation how it works. -jobname would > be possible but I don't want to mess with this any more than I need > to. I don't find texi2dvi a particular easy program to work on (I'm > probably partially to blame here) and I don't want to risk breaking > some rare use case.
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