Re: temp file name conflicts in unattended document generation

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Ed L. Cashin wrote:

> > the mp files is important, because in a next release I will
> > introduce extensive embedded graphic support, acting on graphic
> > layers etc. Of course the texexec option file is also protected now.
> 
> I am really looking forward to learning to use those features.  I
> think that some of them are documented in some presentation papers
> by Hans Hagen that I read a long time ago.

I suppose you refer to the presentation file in the NTS suite? That's
indeed what I'm working on. The interesting fact is that embedded
graphics introduce a sort of new way of thinking on graphics and text,
at least for me -), since one is dealing with the text flow as well as
layers, so what is covering what and depending on what and where and so
on. A main point is how to communicate between tex and mp and hide that
for the user. 

> >   for tetex set TeXScratchPath to /var/tmp/$client-id
> >
> > or so. which would result in
> >
> >   print OPT "\\def\\bufferprefix{/var/tmp/$client-id/\n"
> >
> ...  
> It seems like any hard-coded value for a temp directory is bound to
> cause problems.

Ok. Then I leave it as it is now and we'll see if this works out ok. 

Hans

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