Achim Gratz writes: > Alan Schmitt writes: >> In other words, I see three places of interest: >> - where the org file is >> - where export and compilation occurs >> - where the final result is put >> >> Publishing lets us deal with the last one, but I don't think there is a >> way to distinguish between the first two. > > Having a separate build directory would really need to be accompanied by > a proper build system for all but the most simple tasks. I think you > can very well hand off the publishing to make or something like that. > If you are only concerned about the litter from LaTeX, use a variant of > "texi2pdf --tidy" instead of invoking pdftex directly.
Actually, I think this is the way to go. Having a "run this command (asynchronously) after publishing" would be perfect. I need to look into org-publish to see if this is not already present, and if it would be difficult to add. Alan