aleph (1) Linux Manual Page

NAME

aleph – extended Unicode TeX

SYNOPSIS

aleph [options] [&format] [file|\commands]

DESCRIPTION

Run the Aleph typesetter on file, usually creating file.dvi. If the file argument has no extension, ".tex" will be appended to it. Instead of a filename, a set of Aleph commands can be given, the first of which must start with a backslash. With a &format argument Aleph uses a different set of precompiled commands, contained in format.fmt; it is usually better to use the -fmt format option instead.

Aleph is a version of the TeX program modified for multilingual typesetting. It uses Unicode, and has additional primitives for (among other things) bidirectional typesetting.

Aleph’s command line options are similar to those of TeX.

Aleph is no longer being actively developed; see LuaTeX for current activity.

OPTIONS

Run aleph –help to see the complete list of options; this is not exhaustive.

-cnf-line string

Parse string as a texmf.cnf configuration line. See the Kpathsea manual.

–fmt format

Use format as the name of the format to be used, instead of the name by which Aleph was called or a %& line.

–halt-on-error

Exit with an error code when an error is encountered during processing.

–help

Print help message and exit.

–ini

Be `initial’ Aleph for dumping formats; this is implicitly true if the program is called as inialeph.

–interaction mode

Sets the interaction mode. The mode can be one of batchmode, nonstopmode, scrollmode, and errorstopmode. The meaning of these modes is the same as that of the corresponding