Bug#182563: tex doesn't recognize command line options in input file

[Olaf Weber <olaf@infovore.xs4all.nl>]

Michal Bialoskorski writes:

> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 2.0.1-2

> special meaning of '%&' at first line of input file stopped working 
> after 1.0.7 version of tetex

> when you put at first line special chracters ('%&') tex should take
> everthing after this characters as a commad line options. It was working
> with versions 1.0.x of tetex

> for example when I put at first line of 'myfile.tex' something like:

> %& -translate-file=il2-pl 


> and run:
>  $ tex myfile.tex

> it should be equivalent with:

>  $ tex -translate-file=il2-pl myfile.tex


> but it doesn't work like this... maybe I missed something.

This used to be enabled by default, and is now disabled by default.
Include a line in texmf.cnf like this to get it enabled by default
again.


parse_first_line = t

-- 
Olaf Weber

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