<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 14 January 2017 at 17:39, Philip Taylor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk" target="_blank">P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<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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David Carlisle wrote:<br>
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>> E:\TeX\Projects\WBH\Welcome><wbr>xetex foo --output-directory=../dynamic-<wbr>content<br>
>> (./foo.tex This is the intended foo.tex )<br>
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> isn't that just because the flags after the filename are ignored?<br>
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</span>Silently ?! :-(<br></blockquote><div><br><br></div><div>try a file without \end[document} (\end for you:-) and type \end to the * prompt <br>you will see that the text such as<br>--output-directory=...<br>after the filename is just typeset <br><br></div><div>so any text on the commandline after the filename is just like text at the end of the file<br></div><div>which is silently ignored if the file has \end before that point.<br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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> Personally I'd just add it to the end of the list of reasons never to<br>
> use --output-directory, although that list is so long, it's hard to<br>
> find the end:-)<br>
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</span>If (as I do) one uses Dropbox to mirror one's work for security, the last thing one needs is for Dropbox to continually synch one's ephemeral files (.aux, .log, .ind/idx, .pdf, etc), whence my unvarying use of --output-directory via TeXworks configuration options.<br>
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** Phil.<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The problem is that if you configure tex to write somewhere strange you have to configure _everything_ <br></div><div class="gmail_extra">(makeindex, bibtex, tex, ... to find the files that have been written: it causes endless confusion and questions<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">on support lists) compared to just (for example) configuring your editor to save a copy to your dropbox<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">backup folder on each save.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">David<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>