Hello, Tobias Burnus schrieb:

I freshly switched to the ruby script and have now a problem: texmfstart texexec --pdf --pages=1:2 produces: No pages of output. texmfstart texexec --pdf however, works: Output written on tmp_.pdf (3 pages, 103204 bytes)

I do not know what that option does. It seems to do something, but not the right thing. Actually, looking at texexec.rb I get the impression that --pages= is not supported. One finds there ------------- # so far for compatibility @@extrastringvars = [ 'pages', 'background', 'backspace', 'topspace', 'boxtype', 'tempdir', ------------- Could the --pages option made to work in texexec.rb? In texexec.pl I find the following. I probably should learn ruby [and python for that matter] ... Tobias -------------------- if ($Pages) { if ( lc $Pages eq "odd" ) { print OPT "\\chardef\\whichpagetoshipout=1\n"; } elsif ( lc $Pages eq "even" ) { print OPT "\\chardef\\whichpagetoshipout=2\n"; } else { my @Pages = split( /\,/, $Pages ); $Pages = ''; foreach my $page (@Pages) { if ( $page =~ /\:/ ) { my ( $from, $to ) = split( /\:/, $page ); foreach ( my $i = $from ; $i <= $to ; $i++ ) { $Pages .= $i . ','; } } else { $Pages .= $page . ','; } } chop $Pages; print OPT "\\def\\pagestoshipout\{$Pages\}\n"; } }