[luatex] getting --output-directory

Taco Hoekwater taco at docwolves.nl
Mon May 6 10:09:43 CEST 2013


On 05/06/2013 09:19 AM, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>
> But if you create a file, process it by an external tool, and read the
> resulting file, it would be quite annoying if read and write
> operations take place in different directories.  Thus I think that the
> current behavior is appropriate and less confusing.

+1 (wontfix).

Nice example code also. Nevertheless, perhaps there should be a more
structured way of getting the 'output directory' value rather than
parsing arg[] manually. Adding something cleaner is a good thing to
consider.

Best wishes,
Taco



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