On 7/17/06, Matthias Wächter wrote:
Hi,
Naively, I thought that the --tempdir option would allow the 'temporary' files created/updated at a run of texexec be written to whatever is given as --tempdir=/dir/, but it doesn't work, the files remain in the current directory. Additionally, --output seems to disallow the output be put into another directory (it's always put into `pwd`).
Is there a (better?) way to specify where these files should go?
What I'd expect is a directory layout like the following:
files/ onesource.tex env.tex othersource.tex project.tex out/ project.pdf tmp/ project.tmp project.log project.tui project.tuo mpgraph.mp project-mpgraph.mp
as a result of
$ cd files/ $ texexec --pdf --tempdir=tmp --output=out/project.pdf project
Is /me the only one who desires such a split?
I would vote for that feature too. With LaTeX you only get approximately two or three additional files which is still acceptable, but esp. when using modules such as R and (yet unfinished) gnuplot, the whole folder becomes pretty messy and you never know what to delete and what not. It's almost impossible to extend ctxtools to delete all the necessary files since even PDF files might serve as "temporary" files in "static" MP figures or as intermediate results of gnuplot runs, ... Mojca