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

[Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster@gmail.com>]

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.

Wolfgang
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