>> >> I was able to replicate it under TeX Live 2016 but only after > de-duplicating the back-slashes. >>
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'. <*> showtheeveryjob (Press Enter to retry, or Control-D to exit) Please type another input file name: (/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/x.tex LaTeX2e <2015/01/01> Babel <3.9l> and hyphenation patterns for 79 languages loaded. A.S. ---------------------- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
