Re: Encoding the name in the file contents (was Re: Towards a new LPPL draft)
Scripsit Mark Rafn <dagon@dagon.net>
> Yes. This seems to be a flaw in LaTeX - it doesn't interactively identify
> itself when run.
Huh? The LaTeX I run identifies itself quite plainly in the third line
of the output:
pc-043:~/foo$ latex radio.tex
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
(radio.tex
LaTeX2e <1999/12/01> patch level 1
Babel <v3.6Z> and hyphenation patterns for american, british, danish, nohyphena
tion, loaded.
(/usr/local/stow/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 1999/09/10 v1.4a Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/stow/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size12.clo))
(/usr/local/stow/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/avantgar.sty) (radio.aux)
(/usr/local/stow/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/ot1pag.fd) [1] (radio.aux) )
Output written on radio.dvi (1 page, 1152 bytes).
Transcript written on radio.log.
pc-043:~/foo$
If there is any problem it would be that TeX has a tendency to write
so much routine stuff to stdout that most users - novices and experts
alike - don't bother to read *any* of it unless the run happens to
stop with an error. (I understand that this is precisely why the LaTeX
people are not happy with relying on human-readable diagnostics output
to prevent hacked files from erroneourly ending up in places where
pristine files are expected, without anybody noticing).
However, the verbosity certainly isn't a fault that LaTeX can be
blamed for. Only four of the lines above are ones that LaTeX (in a
broad sense, but excluding the TeX engine) could, technically, have
chosen not to emit.
--
Henning Makholm "However, the fact that the utterance by
Epimenides of that false sentence could imply the
existence of some Cretan who is not a liar is rather unsettling."
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