Re: pandoc to pdf: how to synchronize files output by package ?

[Bastien DUMONT <bastien.dumont-VwIFZPTo/vqsTnJN9+BGXg@public.gmane.org>]

A possible solution would be to use Pandoc to produce the TeX file, then process the TeX file yourself with LaTeX.

Le Thursday 16 February 2023 à 02:00:05AM, Pierre-Antoine BRAMERET a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I use a package that reads and writes files to synchronize counters.
> The package is custom but it is based on this question: https://
> tex.stackexchange.com/questions/124103/how-to-create-a-fixed-counter.
> 
> The result is that I need to input files:
> \InputIfFileExists{\jobname.notes}{}{}
> 
> And output files:
> \immediate\openout\jjdbout=\jobname.notes
> \immediate\write\jjdbout{\unexpanded\expandafter{\jjdbnotes}}
> 
> The problem is that I cannot keep track of this file, as pandoc runs pdflatex
> in a temporary directory.
> 
> The hacks I tried:
> - write somewhere else but pdflatex correctly prevents that,
> - using \write18 to execute some commands, but in that case I don't know the 
> temporary path to synchronize my files to ; I thought it was in TEXMFOUTPUT,
> but this env variable only points to the first run started by pandoc (so it's
> okay to put the files there beforehand, but not to fetch the updated versions),
> - using \write18 and the package currfile, but if I understood correctly,
> currfile relies on files already existing so I cannot know to which path I have
> to put my files before hand.
> 
> Is there something I missed to copy files to output before pandoc calls the pdf
> engine and fetch files after it finished?
> How could we do that?
> 
> Thanks,
> Best,
> 
> 
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