From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/1156 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: temp file name conflicts in unattended document generation Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 17:31:10 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3821B4CE.60EC@wxs.nl> References: <14366.46860.138989.757342@PC709.wkap.nl> <38213CFC.53BB@wxs.nl> Reply-To: pragma@wxs.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035391994 30386 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 16:53:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:53:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: "Ed L. Cashin" Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:1156 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:1156 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------