First time to hear that. I wasn’t aware of it 8-0. Will need to recheck my projects and settings to see what I was accidentally doing right… in the sense that it was working as intended…
Thx/PA PS: once again I’ll go to sleep and will have learnt something new (as the Spanish proverb goes) Enviado desde mi iPhone > El 6 jul 2022, a las 9:49, [email protected] escribió: > > > > >>> Hi, adding an "input" type of header is one option. What about adding a > >>> call to resolve relative file names instead, thus solving maybe other > >>> needs in addition? > >>> > >> That was my second approach. I was concerned that forcing all imports with > >> an absolute path could break existing exports? Correct me if I'm wrong. > >> Using the :header syntax external files can be loaded in via the old way, > >> whereas using :inputs all relative paths are resolved. > >> The downside of course is that we clutter the export settings with a new > >> parameter. > > > >Rather than changing paths to absolute, we can simply play with the > >working directly for latex process and set it to the directory of the > >.org file (unless :dir argument is passed to the latex source block). > >This is probably the most expected behavior. > > > >Best, > >Ihor > > Just my .01 cents... > > For Latex stuff I'm using just > > #+HEADER: \input{preamble} > > and have my preamble.tex in the working directory. (For Beamer stuff it goes > in a LATEX_HEADER). > > Changing that to > > #+HEADER :inputs '("preamble") > > well, would be a matter of taste. > Ox-beamer (ox-latex) executes all latex commands at the current directory of > your org file, whereas ob-latex uses a temporary file to do its thing. > (with-temp-file FILE &rest BODY) > I think this is mostly done to prent metafiles from cluttering your current > directory. > > Different export types, or different user included packages, generate > different > metafiles. This makes an automated cleanup process afterwards a bit more > complicated I think, if not impossible. > > The temporary file makes it hard to add files to the working directory. > > > > > > >
