[tex4ht] Output directory

[Christian Pleul]

Am 13.12.2009 um 18:34 schrieb Allen Barnett:

> On Sun, 2009-12-13 at 09:27 +0100, Christian Pleul wrote:
>> Am 13.12.2009 um 03:31 schrieb Radhakrishnan CV:
>> 
>>> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Christian Pleul
>>> <chrisptex at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Am 12.12.2009 um 15:53 schrieb Radhakrishnan CV:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Christian Pleul
>>>>> <chrisptex at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> I found that subject already on the list, but always with no
>>>>>> answer
>>>>>> for me.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I tried the following:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> htlatex preamble.tex "myconfig" ""
>>>>>> "-d/Users/chrisp/Desktop/temp/test/tex4ht/html"
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> But all the output files are created within the dir of the
>>>>>> *.tex
>>>>>> files. Could somebody please point me to the right
>>>>>> direction...?
>>>>> 
>>>>> What you are doing is correct. The last option with -d switch
>>>>> does the
>>>>> job correctly if the destination directory exists.  However, the
>>>>> files
>>>>> are created in the current directory and copied to the
>>>>> destination
>>>>> which you have provided with -d switch.
>>>> 
>>>> The directory exists but there is no copy of the files in the dir
>>>> following the -d switch.
>>>> 
>>>> The last lines of my terminal output say the following (may this
>>>> provides some useful information):
>>>> ----------------
>>>> System call: mv
>>>> preamble4x.png /Users/chrisp/Desktop/temp/test/tex4ht/html.
>>>> System return: 0
>>>> Entering preamble.css
>>>> Entering preamble.tmp
>>>> System call: cp
>>>> preamble.html /Users/chrisp/Desktop/temp/test/tex4ht/html.
>>>> System return: 0
>>> 
>>> [...]
>>> 
>>> Indeed, the log provides useful information.  You will notice that
>>> the
>>> files are copied to the destination you have provided.  And the exit
>>> status is '0' which means there are no errors in the operation.  I
>>> am
>>> at a loss to believe that something has gone wrong, amazingly
>>> everything seems to be perfect and as expected!
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I dont know too, whats going on. The strange thing is, that after
>> compilation with tex4ht (and the -d switch) a _file_
>> 
>> 
>> html.
>> 
>> 
>> is created within the *.tex-directory, which shows the one test image
>> I have in my tex document. Unfortunately, nothing is in the "html"
>> folder.
>> 
>>> Have you aliased 'mv' and 'cp' commands to something else in your
>>> .bashrc?  Are you using a non-Unix or non-Linux operating system?
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Nothing is aliased and I am using a Mac OS X 10.6.2.
> 
> I think the trick is to add a "/" to the end of the -d argument, e.g.:
> 
> -d/Users/chrisp/Desktop/temp/test/tex4ht/html/
> 
> Allen

You are right, Allen. Thanks for the trick!

BTW, does have somebody a handy makefile (or is there any other way?) to delete the text4ht files and remnants in the original dir?

Thanks
--
	Christian


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