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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: A way to clean up unnecessary files after compilation in CTX mkiv
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 15:13:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57065CEA.202@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57063CBF.8010108@gmail.com>

On 4/7/2016 12:55 PM, L.S.-Soc&Gam wrote:
> Thanks Hans,
>
> it works. But there is a problem.
> The way you described it, the *.synctex file gets deleted as well, but I
> think I need it for Sumatra PDF to sync. When I used texmfstart.exe and
> --purgeall this didn't happen.
> Any idea would be great.

no idead .. that file is like a log file ... (basically onely the tuc 
file is not purged as it saves successive runs)

> Thanks in advance,
> Sebastian
>
>
>
> Am 07.04.2016 um 12:12 schrieb Hans Hagen:
>> On 4/7/2016 11:21 AM, L.S.-Soc&Gam wrote:
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> i am using mkiv with TeXnicCenter. There is an option to create a
>>> clean-up processor which deletes temporary files.
>>> Right now for me the options look as following:
>>> Executable: X:\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-win64\bin\texmfstart.exe
>>> Arguments:            texutil.rb --purgeall
>>> This is from an old installation instruction from mkii and works great
>>> but it makes it necessary to install Ruby.
>>> Since I don't want to install Ruby if it's unnecessary, i'd like to know
>>> if there is a way to clean up files without mkii and Ruby elements.
>>> I thought it might be possible to use *context.exe* as processor
>>> executable for deleting temp files, but i wouldn't know the correct
>>> arguments.
>>> Sorry if I missed something obvious.
>>
>> assuming you run context mkiv:
>>
>> context --purge somefile.tex
>>
>> will cleanup afterwards
>>
>> or without file it will cleanup all left-overs
>>
>> (btw, the number of runtime generated files is not that large for
>> mkiv: a tuc file for multipass, and a log file and of course the
>> result pdf file)
>>
>> Hans
>>
>>
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      reply	other threads:[~2016-04-07 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-07  8:25 server Thomas A. Schmitz
2016-04-07  9:20 ` server Mojca Miklavec
2016-04-07  9:41   ` server Thomas A. Schmitz
2016-04-07  9:21 ` A way to clean up unnecessary files after compilation in CTX mkiv L.S.-Soc&Gam
2016-04-07 10:12   ` Hans Hagen
2016-04-07 10:55     ` L.S.-Soc&Gam
2016-04-07 13:13       ` Hans Hagen [this message]

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