spix (1) Linux Manual Page

spix – Compile a .tex file, executing commands that are set inside the file itself.

Synopsis

spix [–version] [-h] [-n] file

Description

spix parses a .tex file to find lines starting with %$ (before the preambule). Those lines are shell commands that are executed by spix.

Commands are executed as-is, excepted that:

– command are run from the directory of the file given in argument;

– shell variables $texname and $basename are set to the name of the tex file (respectively with and without the .tex extension).

Options

-n, –dry-run

Print the commands that would be executed, but do not execute them.

-h, –help

Print help, and exit.

–version

Print version, and exit.

Examples

Let foo.tex be the following file.

% Compile this file twice with lualatex.

%$ lualatex foo.tex

%$ lualatex foo.tex

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

Hello, world!

\end{document}

When running spix on this file, it is compiled twice using lualatex(1) (as written in lines 2 and 3 of the file).