Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] lualatex needs --jobname option

[Ralf Angeli]

* Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard (2011-06-15) writes:

> Le 14/06/2011 22:43, Ralf Angeli a écrit :
>> 
>> Do you happen to know a way of quoting which works with both versions?
>> 
> Unfortunately not, and I'm really sorry for that. I tend to recommend the
>
>       --jobname=luatex\ test
>
> way, since it works for TL 2010 and TL 2011, and this is more
> important IMO than supporting 2009 even if it is the Debian version
> for the following reasons:
> 1. Debian users seem unlikely to use spaces in their tex filenames too
> often, I believe this is rather an habit of Windows and OS X users;
> 2. LuaTeX users tend to want up-to-date suff anyway.
> (I admit this reasons are rather based on clichés.)
>
> The only good news in this picture is that, however you quote the
> argument of --jobname, it will work with any version of TeX Live if
> the filename doesn't contain spaces. So it is probably still a good
> idea to add --jobname: it would fix the problem with the autoquote fix
> in TL 2010/11 for filenames without spaces.

Thanks for all the informative explanations.  I've now added the
--jobname switch for luatex and lualatex with the quoting you recommend
above, i.e. --jobname=luatex\ test in the example we discussed.  I've
added it really only for the two LuaTeX binaries and not for other
engines' binaries since I want to keep the impact as small as possible.

-- 
Ralf