Re: Simple question: how do I get the filename in the footer

[Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl>]

On 20 Jan 2013, at 18:34, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

> 
> Am 20.01.2013 um 18:06 schrieb Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl>:
> 
>> On 20 Jan 2013, at 16:09, Philipp Gesang wrote:
>> 
>>> ···<date: 2013-01-20, Sunday>···<from: Gerben Wierda>···
>>> 
>>>> On 20 Jan 2013, at 12:57, Philipp Gesang wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Gerben,
>>>>> 
>>>>> ···<date: 2013-01-20, Sunday>···<from: Gerben Wierda>···
>>>>> 
>>>>>> how do I get the filename (full path not needed) in the footer
>>>>>> of my document? I want it there while writing the book and remove
>>>>>> it in the final stages. I am using MKII (TeXLive 2011 still)
>>>>> 
>>>>> if the name of the main file suffices, then the TeX command
>>>>> \jobname is what you are looking for.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks but that is not the one. Because I use the standard project setup, and the job is always to typeset the file prd_book.tex, but I want the chapter file names (e.g. "chapter1.tex") in the footer.
>>>> 
>>>> So, prd_book contains:
>>>> 
>>>> \startbodymatter
>>>> \component chapter1
>>>> \component chapter2
>>>> \component chapter3
>>>> \stopbodymatter
>>>> 
>>>> And I want "chapter1.tex" (maybe full path) in the footer.
>>> 
>>> If the component identifier matches the file name (e.g. if you
>>> use the asterisk instead of a name), you can use
>>> \currentcomponent. So the main file foo.tex would look like:
>>> 
>>>  \setuppagenumbering[location=]
>>>  %% footer:                    main file->component file
>>>  \setupfootertexts[pagenumber][{\jobname->\currentcomponent}]
>>>  \startproduct *
>>>    \input ward \page
>>>    \component bar
>>>  \stopproduct
>>> 
>>> And bar.tex:
>>> 
>>>  \startcomponent *
>>>    \input knuth \page
>>>  \stopcomponent
>> 
>> Hi Philipp,
>> 
>> that runs into the problem that the file name might contain characters that TeX does not like, e.g. underscore. Is there a command to catch that?
> 
> You can add the \nonknuthmode to your document which makes _ and ^ normal characters for text mode.

Is that limited to a {}-scope? And more importantly, that catches ^ and _, but what about whitespace etc. Isn;t there a true verbatim that I can use on a macro like \currentcomponent? Something along the lines of \verbatimexpand{\currentcomponent}?

G

> 
> Wolfgang
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