[tex-live] How to do the following?

[David Kastrup]

Hi,

I want to call some executable, preloading a format and running a
file that might contain spaces in the file name.

latex &format "file name with spaces"

does not work whereas

latex "file name with spaces"

would actually work, but not preload a format.

In a similar vein,

latex "&format name with spaces"

does not work.

And for dumping a format based on LaTeX, neither

latex -ini "&latex" "file name with spaces"

nor

latex -ini -fmtname latex "file name with spaces"

will work.  The first fails because of the spaces, the second does not
bother to preload latex.fmt.

This is not all too convincing and/or consistent.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum