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-rwxr-xr-xMaster/tlpkg/bin/pdflatex-preserve-pdf12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/bin/pdflatex-preserve-pdf b/Master/tlpkg/bin/pdflatex-preserve-pdf
index f9d70b1e571..befbc364301 100755
--- a/Master/tlpkg/bin/pdflatex-preserve-pdf
+++ b/Master/tlpkg/bin/pdflatex-preserve-pdf
@@ -15,8 +15,18 @@
# Authors are sometimes responsive to supporting an alternate method for
# running the dtx that does not remake the doc (e.g., \ifpdf), but not
# always. So we need this workaround.
+#
+# With a first arg --engine, the second arg is the name of the program
+# to invoke, instead of pdflatex.
+
+if test x"$1" = x--engine; then
+ shift
+ engine=$1; shift
+else
+ engine=pdflatex
+fi
basefile=`echo "$1" | sed 's/\.[^.]*$//'`
mv "$basefile.pdf" save.pdf
-pdflatex "$@"
+$engine "$@" </dev/null
mv save.pdf "$basefile.pdf"