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> -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
