<div dir="ltr">No, ./ is not a path specification, the normalization rules will remove it, ./foo.tex is the same as foo.tex. If you want to specify the path, ../Welcome/foo.tex will help because such a file is not below dynamic-content.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Zdeněk Wagner<br><a href="http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml" target="_blank">http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml</a><br><a href="http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz" target="_blank">http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz</a></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-01-15 20:26 GMT+01:00 Philip Taylor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk" target="_blank">P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
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Philip Taylor wrote:<br>
<br>
> But the defined behaviour for :<br>
><br>
>       o xetex --output-directory=../dynamic-<wbr>content E:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome/<wbr>foo.tex<br>
><br>
> must /surely/ be to process E:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome/<wbr>foo.tex, not E:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Dynamic-<wbr>content/foo.tex, which is what it does;<br>
<br>
</span>This statement was in error :<br>
<span class=""><br>
>       o xetex --output-directory=../dynamic-<wbr>content E:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome/<wbr>foo.tex<br>
<br>
</span>does indeed process E:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome/<wbr>foo.tex as requested.  Yet with<br>
the current working directory :<br>
<br>
> E:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome/<wbr>foo.tex<br>
<br>
>       o xetex --output-directory=../dynamic-<wbr>content ./foo.tex<br>
<br>
the file that is actually processed is<br>
<br>
> E:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Dynamic-<wbr>content/foo.tex<br>
<br>
In both cases, the path to the source directory has been specified, yet "E:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome/" is correctly honoured while "./" (for . = E:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome) is not.  I remain completely confused by this seemingly aberrant and inconsistency behaviour.<br>
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Philip Taylor<br>
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E:\TeX\Projects\WBH\Welcome><wbr>xetex --output-directory=../dynamic-<wbr>content E:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome/<wbr>foo.tex<br>
<span class="">This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99996 (TeX Live 2016/W32TeX) (preloaded format=xetex)<br>
 restricted \write18 enabled.<br>
entering extended mode<br>
</span>(e:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome/<wbr>foo.tex This is the intended foo.tex<br>
(e:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome/<wbr>foo.aux This is the intended foo.aux) )<br>
<span class="">No pages of output.<br>
Transcript written on ../dynamic-content/foo.log.<br>
<br>
</span>E:\TeX\Projects\WBH\Welcome><wbr>xetex --output-directory=../dynamic-<wbr>content ./foo.tex<br>
<span class="">This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99996 (TeX Live 2016/W32TeX) (preloaded format=xetex)<br>
 restricted \write18 enabled.<br>
entering extended mode<br>
(../dynamic-content/./foo.tex This is the unintended foo.tex<br>
</span>(e:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome/<wbr>foo.aux This is the intended foo.aux) )<br>
<span class="im HOEnZb">No pages of output.<br>
Transcript written on ../dynamic-content/foo.log.<br>
<br>
</span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">E:\TeX\Projects\WBH\Welcome><br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>