"Mojca Miklavec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 4:27 PM, John Devereux wrote: >> "Mojca Miklavec" writes: >> >> > Do you have any suggestions about how to reduce the number of files in >> > some sensible way? >> >> The ideal would be an option when processing the source file, to turn >> off file deletion. Like >> >> texexec document.tex --keep-temporaries >> >> So by default the source directory would be kept clean, but when >> "debugging" the intermediate files would be available. >> >> Or perhaps some option passed to \startGNUPLOTscript (or >> \useGNUPLOTgraphic) if that is possible? >> >> \startGNUPLOTscript[example][keeptemporaryfile=yes] > > This sounds fine (having a --debug-like option), but one more question > - what about caching existing results? (If all files are deleted, then > it's not possible to ask for --ifchanged, so gnuplot needs to be run > each time.)
Actually the configurable temp dir would be OK too. texexec document.tex --tempdir=./temporaries Regarding cacheing, this would be nice but I don't know if it can be done. I think you still need to run gnuplot in case the data has changed. >> That might be better otherwise debugging a big document could result >> it hundreds of files. >> >> Another possibility would be to put the files in /tmp. > > That's not too practical. -- John Devereux ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
