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Bug#273084: marked as done (pdftex.1.gz: --help has basic info that man page lacks)

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regarding pdftex.1.gz: --help has basic info that man page lacks
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Package: tetex-bin
Version: 2.0.2-15
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/man/man1/pdftex.1.gz

SYNOPSIS
       pdftex [options] [commands]
is not enough to get a person started, and indeed omits the filename
that can be seen here:

$ pdftex --help
Usage: pdftex [OPTION]... [TEXNAME[.tex]] [COMMANDS]

Nor does one see
  Run pdfTeX on TEXNAME, usually creating TEXNAME.pdf.
etc.

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Version: 2007-1

On 23.09.04 Dan Jacobson (jidanni@jidanni.org) wrote:

Hi Dan,

> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 2.0.2-15
> Severity: minor
> File: /usr/share/man/man1/pdftex.1.gz
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>        pdftex [options] [commands]
> is not enough to get a person started, and indeed omits the filename
> that can be seen here:
> 
> $ pdftex --help
> Usage: pdftex [OPTION]... [TEXNAME[.tex]] [COMMANDS]
> 
> Nor does one see
>   Run pdfTeX on TEXNAME, usually creating TEXNAME.pdf.
> etc.
> 
Actually the situation has improved. The help reads now:

hille@drachi:~$ pdftex --help
Usage: pdftex [OPTION]... [TEXNAME[.tex]] [COMMANDS]
   or: pdftex [OPTION]... \FIRST-LINE
   or: pdftex [OPTION]... &FMT ARGS
  Run pdfTeX on TEXNAME, usually creating TEXNAME.pdf.
  Any remaining COMMANDS are processed as pdfTeX input, after TEXNAME is read.
  If the first line of TEXNAME is %&FMT, and FMT is an existing .fmt file,
  use it.  Else use `NAME.fmt', where NAME is the program invocation name,
  most commonly `pdftex'.

  Alternatively, if the first non-option argument begins with a backslash,
  interpret all non-option arguments as a line of pdfTeX input.

  Alternatively, if the first non-option argument begins with a &, the
  next word is taken as the FMT to read, overriding all else.  Any
  remaining arguments are processed as above.

In the manual page one can read:

NAME
       pdftex, pdfinitex, pdfvirtex - PDF output from TeX

SYNOPSIS
       pdftex [options] [& format ] [ file | \ commands ]

DESCRIPTION
       Run  the  pdfTeX typesetter on file, usually creating file.pdf.  If the
       file argument has no extension, ".tex" will be appended to it. Instead
       of  a  filename,  a  set  of pdfTeX commands can be given, the a first of
       which must start with a backslash.  With a &format argument pdfTeX uses
       a different set of precompiled commands, contained in format.fmt; it is
       usually better to use the -fmt format option instead.

Both docs describe now the two methods to submit input to TeX. This
should be sufficient, I close that bug.

Regards,
  H.
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