"There is no reason why you should not be able to generate the list of image filenames in a special target and use this filename later on in another target ..."
That's what I want to do. I'd expected there to be a version of "copy" which could work in this way, but I couldn't see how to do it; Tony's example has pointed me at it. Appreciatively, Richard. ________________________________ From: Michael Wiedmann [[email protected]] Sent: 15 March 2013 13:57 To: Kerry, Richard Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] epub3 - copying the images, using Ant Kerry, Richard wrote: > > "Probably you have to this before you run 'ant'." > > That's what i want to avoid. > It's the running of Ant that generates the list .... There is no reason why you should not be able to generate the list of image filenames in a special target and use this filename later on in another target as value for the includesfile attribute. Tony Graham's solution is the same as mine, but probably easier to understand because of the example code. Michael
