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<xsl:param name="latex.engine.options"/>
</pre></div><div class="refsection" title="Description"><a id="idm793960"></a><h2>Description</h2><p>This parameter enables to pass some options or extra arguments to the
TeX engine used to compile the latex file built by
<span class="command"><strong>dblatex</strong></span>.</p><p>This can be usefull to tweak the PDF generation to meet some specific
needs that cannot be set through latex commands. The following example asks
to <span class="command"><strong>xelatex</strong></span> to produce PDF version 1.3 and to embed all
the fonts in the PDF file:</p><pre class="screen">
$ <strong class="userinput"><code>dblatex -b xetex -V -P latex.engine.options="-output-driver='xdvipdfmx -V3 -E'" file.xml</code></strong>
[...]
xelatex -output-driver=xdvipdfmx -V3 -E -interaction=batchmode file.tex
[...]
xelatex -output-driver=xdvipdfmx -V3 -E -interaction=batchmode file.tex
[...]
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