Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We should try to make this as close as possible to the way "tex" does > things. What is the equivalent configuration mechanism for "tex"? I > noticed that there *is* an "-output-directory" option but can it be > configured from some configuration file in the user's home directory? > If so we could try to use the same file or something similar.
,---- info web2c | You can use the `-output-directory' option to cause all output files | that would normally be written in the current directory to be written | in the specified directory instead. *Note Common options::. | | If the current directory is not writable, and `-output-directory' is | not specified, the main programs (TeX, Metafont, MetaPost, and BibTeX) | make an exception: if the config file value `TEXMFOUTPUT' is set (it is | not by default), output files are written to the directory specified. `---- However, this mechanism is not exactly what I want, and it is used only very rarely. Therefore I wouldn't stick too closely to that, unless there are other reasons for it. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
