On 14/08/2023 16:01, Philip Taylor (RHUoL) wrote:
I do not know whether there is such a thing, but if there is, may I add
an entry ?
Background: I have (XeTeX) code which adds bleed and crop marks
(strictly speaking, bleed and trim marks) to an existing multipage PDF.
The code is stored in a file called "Add bleed + cropmarks.tex". When
run, it asks the user for the name of the PDF file to be used as input,
but of course the resulting PDF output file is always called "Add bleed
+ cropmarks.pdf".
Request : Would it be possible to enhance XeTeX such one could write
(e.g.,)
\XeTeXpdffile = "Hội-An lunch menu with bleed and crop marks"
before any data has been entered on the MVL, and then have the output
file name be taken from \XeTeXpdffile ? If \XeTeXpdffilename were set
only /after/ data had entered the MVL, it would be completely acceptable
for the output file name to be taken from \jobname as at present.
It would (IMHO) be more elegant to make \jobname read/write, but that
would introduce an unnecessary deviation from TeX.
In principle, I'm sure it could be done, but another option you could
consider would be to run your xetex job via a "wrapper" script (or batch
file to you, Philip) that handles this. E.g. instead of having the XeTeX
code itself prompt for a filename, you could prompt for it from the
wrapper script, and then pass it to xetex via the -jobname option.
JK
