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

[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?

(./c_loosely.tex
! Missing $ inserted.
<inserted text> 
                $
<to be read again> 
                   _
\currentcomponent ->c_
                      loosely


Thanks,

G

> 
> Hth
> Philipp
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