[XeTeX] changing output filename from the source

[Will Robertson]

On 2010-01-05 07:17:00 +1030, Peter Dyballa 
<Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE> said:

> 
> Am 04.01.2010 um 19:37 schrieb Pablo Rodríguez:
> 
>> How can I set the \jobname from within the TeX source?
> 
> 	\def\jobname{And now to something completely different!} ?

This is the way, but unfortunately only the aux files and so on will 
use the new name. The name of the PDF file is (AFAIK) fixed when *TeX 
is invoked.

The only possibility is

    xetex -jobname=bar foo.tex

but this cannot be done, obviously, within the TeX run.

Will