Re: Passing a string via texexec

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 10:36 AM 11/6/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>This is more of a convenience feature than a necessity, but here goes.
>
>I plan to personalize copies of an ebook in pdf format by putting the
>string:
>"This copy prepared for Joe Smith" on the page, perhaps in a footer.
>This means I have to recompile the book for each separate customer. It
>would save a minute if I could just pass a named string to pdfetex in
>the same way one passes a mode to the program. I am looking for
>something like:
>texexec --mode=ebook --string="Joe Smith" mybook.tex
>
>...and then have a way to pick up that string in the TeX file and use
>it.
>
>All this does is save me from editing the file in every instance. If
>it is too big a deal forget it.

in your tex file:

   \message{\envvar{test}{it does not work}}\wait

combined with

   texexec --arguments="test=it works" test

so, it's there -)

Hans
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