Am Dienstag, 17. Februar 2004 10:46 schrieb Helge Hafting:
I've had one problem that forced me to not use temp dirs:
Latex code (in ERT or in the preamble or in the preamble/textstyles
of a custom document layout) may use \input, \includegraphics, or
some other command that opens a user-provided file from the working
directory
or from some subdirectory thereof.
You can always do something in ERT that makes latex choke if you want to.
Yes, and I don't believe in supporting any crazy latex construct, or even all the convenient ones. I can rewrite when there is a working way.
It is impossible to prevent this, but of course your point below is an example for something sensible that should be doable.
The real-life example: I wrote a textbook on algorithms, using a custom
layout.
One of the paragraph types was "tip", which included an image of a little lightbulb in the margin. This was fetched from a subdirectory "graphichs" under the working directory. There where several other iamges in that directory too, such as a chapter-page graphic.
The attached example works for me with both 1.3cvs and 1.4cvs and using a temp dir.
It works for me too. This happened a year ago, and I remembered wrong. /includegraphichs seems fine.
So I opened up one of those files trying to see what happens with a temp dir. The first thing that broke was the xfig external inset. The .fig is converted into a .pstex_t and a .eps, the .pstex_t file was not found although it was created in the document directory.
I also use the listings package in order to include nice document listings from source files. There seems to be trouble with that too.
Do you need a test document with these problems?
Helge Hafting
