Hi Hans, with the latest beta I still have to patch mtxrun to make xmldir work … Besides, the root-parameter (--root=some/path) don’t seem to have any impact. As an workaround I’m using \startmode[*first] \executesystemcommand {cd some/path && mtxrun --script tools --dirtoxml --pattern=*.pdf --output=some/path/xmldir.xml} \stopmode Thanks in advance Andreas