Re: Intermediate files in subdirectory

Re: Intermediate files in subdirectory

[Fredrik Sjunnesson]

Thank you Mojca.

The main reason for asking is that I intend to try to convince my
employer to adopt ConTeXt as a tool for producing technical documents.
In my view, ConTeXt is obviously far superior to MS Word, which we use
today, for that purpose.

Since ConTeXt represents a way of producing documents that is very
different from what our managers are used to, it will, however, be
important that ConTeXt doesn't appear more complex than it actually is.
A way to hide the abundance of intermediate files from the user would
clearly be helpful in that respect.

I will give the tools you suggest a try, maybe they are good enough.

Thanks,
Fredrik
 
 
On 9/8/06, Fredrik Sjunnesson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there any way to specify where the intermediate files and log files
> generated by context end up?
>
> Ideally, I would like my working directory to contain tex and pdf
files
> only. All other files could be stored in a subdirectory. That way all
> these extra files are kept out of sight but close at hand in case you
> need them.

I wish I was wrong, but as far as I know you can't do it (yet?),
although there have been many requests for it. To remove unneeded
files you can use
    ctxtools --purge [--all]
(texutill --purge[all] if you don't have the ruby variant installed yet)
although I know that that's not quite the same. (I know some people in
LaTeX world who use make files to copy/remove files.)

Mojca
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Re: Intermediate files in subdirectory

[Hans Hagen]

Fredrik Sjunnesson wrote:
>
> I will give the tools you suggest a try, maybe they are good enough.
>   
you can also run 

texexec --purge ...... 

which will clean up most of the files after a run 

Hans 

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Re: Intermediate files in subdirectory

[Mojca Miklavec]

On 9/8/06, Fredrik Sjunnesson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there any way to specify where the intermediate files and log files
> generated by context end up?
>
> Ideally, I would like my working directory to contain tex and pdf files
> only. All other files could be stored in a subdirectory. That way all
> these extra files are kept out of sight but close at hand in case you
> need them.

I wish I was wrong, but as far as I know you can't do it (yet?),
although there have been many requests for it. To remove unneeded
files you can use
    ctxtools --purge [--all]
(texutill --purge[all] if you don't have the ruby variant installed yet)
although I know that that's not quite the same. (I know some people in
LaTeX world who use make files to copy/remove files.)

Mojca

Intermediate files in subdirectory

[Fredrik Sjunnesson]

Hello,

Is there any way to specify where the intermediate files and log files
generated by context end up?

Ideally, I would like my working directory to contain tex and pdf files
only. All other files could be stored in a subdirectory. That way all
these extra files are kept out of sight but close at hand in case you
need them.


Thanks in advance,
Fredrik

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