Re: a rather larger inconvience

[Uwe Brauer]

> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:

> I admit I don't understand the above.  Can you please assemble a minimal
> file (structure) exhibiting the problem?  And also telling us how
> exactly you ran latexmk?  I've never used latexmk so I'm clueless about
> what it does and doesn't.

Sorry, in a nutshell this is all about the variable *TeX-output-dir*

,----
| TeX-output-dir is a variable defined in ‘tex.el’.
| 
| Its value is "build"
| Original value was nil
| 
| The path of the directory where output files should be placed.
| 
| A relative path is interpreted as being relative to the master
| file in ‘TeX-master’.  The path cannot contain a directory that
| starts with ’.’.  If this variable is nil, the output directory
| is assumed to be the same as the directory of ‘TeX-master’.
`----

This functionality was provided by Al Haji-Ali

Here is how that works. 

    1. Suppose I have all my tex documents in a directory called
       publications, in particular

       - publications/section1.tex
       - publications/section2.tex
       - etc

    2. When I compile say section1.tex, all files that are generated
       during compilation, log, aux, pdf etc are saved in
       publications/build

    3. That functionality leaves the directory publications clutter free

    4. And important point is that after compilation TeX-view «finds»
       the corresponding pdf/dvi file in the TeX-output-dir.

That being said, let us turn now to LaTeXMk.

    1. This new function seems to ignore, TeX-output-dir and therefore
       the directory publications is cluttered with the files generated
       by the compilation process.

    2. Worse however is that TeX-view now does not find the generated
       pdf/dvi, because it looks in the TeX-output-dir


Did I explain the problem now better?
       
Uwe 
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