Am Sun, 15 Jan 2017 09:20:13 +0000 schrieb Philip Taylor: > But all of this is besides the point : surely > > o XeTeX --output-directory=../dynamic-content foo (or foo.tex) > > should compile foo.tex, not ../dynamic-content/foo.tex
The output-directory is not only for output-files. XeTeX must also be able to read from this folder, e.g. a toc-file or an aux-file. And if there is (in a latex compilation) an (older) foo.aux in the current folder and a new foo.aux in /dynamic-content you would want it to find the newer one. Which means that the output-directory must be added at the begin of the texinputs path. (In miktex it is the other way round and this can be quite confusing when I test something with output-directory) On the whole I would say, that if you want to use --output-directory you should avoid files with the same name in both folder. Like the other adjustments one should do it doesn't take to much brain-power to follow such a rule. -- Ulrike Fischer http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/ -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex