[tex-live] How to do the following?

[Philip TAYLOR]

OK, I'll test, but your scenario reads oddly to me :
why would you use the verb "LaTeX", which explicitly
loads the LaTeX format, when you want to load another
format ?  Would it not be more sensible to invoke it
as "TeX" which (provided that the implementation hasn't
meddled) will invoke Virtex by default, and Initex if
a suitable switch (e.g., "/I", "-ini", etc) is provided ...

Philip Taylor
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> David Kastrup wrote: >

> I should be surprised if the XP version of TeXlive would exhibit
> different behavior.


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>> 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.
>> 


David Kastrup wrote:
> Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk> writes:
> 
>> OK, sorry, can't help : only Windows/XP here.
>> Philip Taylor
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>> David Kastrup wrote:
>>> Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk> writes:
>>>
>>>> Which operating system, which [La]TeX implementation ?
>>> TeXlive (what point otherwise in posting here?) 2005, everything
>>> quoted properly for the shell in question, system GNU/Linux.
> 
> I should be surprised if the XP version of TeXlive would exhibit
> different behavior.
>