Command line input

efx · August 26, 2019, 1:12pm

It is not currently customizable but I opened this issue to track that work:

github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic

customizing the name of the output file when converting from standard input

opened 03:56PM - 16 Aug 19 UTC

closed 09:03PM - 07 Nov 22 UTC

As a developer I would like to customize the default filename for PDF output whe…n converting a LaTex file from standard input. ## steps 1. `cat my-document.tex | tectonic -` 2. notice the output file is always `texput.pdf`. The [documentation](https://docs.rs/tectonic/0.1.11/tectonic/driver/struct.ProcessingSessionBuilder.html#method.tex_input_name) explains this is the default. It would be helpful to be able to customize the output file name or have an option to steam the PDF to standard out. I am batch processing LaTeX files and as part of looping will need to operate on individual files. Piping files using stdin is great but I will need to block the asynchronous loop because of the output filename being the same for each iteration. That or get clever with `--outdir` option. Does the following line dictate this behavior?: https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/blob/5e4348258f826b6096690ecf6fff2f76acf92d41/src/lib.rs#L147