No, ./ is not a path specification, the normalization rules will remove it, ./foo.tex is the same as foo.tex. If you want to specify the path, ../Welcome/foo.tex will help because such a file is not below dynamic-content.
Zdeněk Wagner http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz 2017-01-15 20:26 GMT+01:00 Philip Taylor <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk>: > > > Philip Taylor wrote: > > > But the defined behaviour for : > > > > o xetex --output-directory=../dynamic-content > E:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome/foo.tex > > > > must /surely/ be to process E:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome/foo.tex, not > E:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Dynamic-content/foo.tex, which is what it does; > > This statement was in error : > > > o xetex --output-directory=../dynamic-content > E:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome/foo.tex > > does indeed process E:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome/foo.tex as requested. > Yet with > the current working directory : > > > E:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome/foo.tex > > > o xetex --output-directory=../dynamic-content ./foo.tex > > the file that is actually processed is > > > E:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Dynamic-content/foo.tex > > In both cases, the path to the source directory has been specified, yet > "E:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome/" is correctly honoured while "./" (for . = > E:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome) is not. I remain completely confused by this > seemingly aberrant and inconsistency behaviour. > > Philip Taylor > -------- > E:\TeX\Projects\WBH\Welcome>xetex --output-directory=../dynamic-content > E:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome/foo.tex > This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99996 (TeX Live 2016/W32TeX) > (preloaded format=xetex) > restricted \write18 enabled. > entering extended mode > (e:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome/foo.tex This is the intended foo.tex > (e:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome/foo.aux This is the intended foo.aux) ) > No pages of output. > Transcript written on ../dynamic-content/foo.log. > > E:\TeX\Projects\WBH\Welcome>xetex --output-directory=../dynamic-content > ./foo.tex > This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99996 (TeX Live 2016/W32TeX) > (preloaded format=xetex) > restricted \write18 enabled. > entering extended mode > (../dynamic-content/./foo.tex This is the unintended foo.tex > (e:/TeX/Projects/WBH/Welcome/foo.aux This is the intended foo.aux) ) > No pages of output. > Transcript written on ../dynamic-content/foo.log. > > E:\TeX\Projects\WBH\Welcome> >
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