On 01/02/2017 18:10, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
> You mean something like this: > $ echo x | xelatex \showthe\everyjob > This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99996 (TeX Live 2017/dev) (preloaded > format=xelatex) > restricted \write18 enabled. > entering extended mode > ! I can't find file `showtheeveryjob'. I would imagine that something in your command-line interpreter is silently absorbing naked back-slashes ... -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex