On the commandline, some other options can be given, apart from the
file that is to be compiled.
The syntax then looks like this:
initex [options] [&fmt[.fmt]] [file[.tex]]
bzw.
virtex [options] [&fmt[.fmt]] [file[.tex]]
Valid options are:
12345-cDir list![[*]](footnote.png)
With this you can indicate a list of directories, separated by comma,
in which for the configuration file tex.cnf is searched.
A further possibility would be to set the environment variable
TEXCONFIG to dir list.
-b \string
-n \string
-s \string
-e \string (Default)
Only one of these options at a time can be selected.
With this the Interaction Mode can be set according to the
TEXcommands | |, | |, | | resp. | |.
-llanguage number
From Version 3.0 on, you can load separation tables for up to
256 languages at the same time. Switching between these tables
happens through the new TEXcounter ||. If you have
loaded in position 0 the English and in position 1 the German
separations, then you can switch to the German separation through
-l1, without a change in the file to be formatted. If you
give a number > 255 or < 0, then this means |=0|,
has for the given number no table been loaded, then the separation
is switched off.
-dDebugflag, with this some more or less explicit
messages are additionally output.
The options must be given one at a time, separated by spaces.
Valid is e.g. -s -e, invalid on the other hand is -se.