[tex-live] %& first line parsing different jobname

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 9 June 2009 T T wrote:

 > Going back to the original question: I understand that this limited
 > parsing of the %&-line is a feature, not a bug, am I right?

Certainly!  The first two characters of the "%&-line" had not been
chosen by accident.  The first one is unavoidable, any character with
another \catcode than 14 would break everything.  The second character
is "&", which has a special meaning on the command line:

   tex &latex myfile.tex

The program "tex" loads the format file "latex.fmt" and then executes
"myfile.tex".  The character "&" has a special meaning here, and if a
line begins with "%&", I don't expect that anything else but the name
of a format file is expected.

Other people might have other expectations.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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