John Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 09:59:40PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > > The attached patch enables us to move XFig files to the temp directory and > > continue to generate DVI files, etc that show any included picture files. > > Question: > > Why move the files? Will LaTeX not respect symlinks?
Sure, and it puts all the aux files into the directory where the symlink is. Unfortunately it also resolves all contained file references relative to the directory of the symlink, not relative to the original file. So there's no real advantage to copying, in fact if you have to change the contained file references you really should make these changes on a copy. That's exactly the kind of mess which Georg and Angus were trying to solve with their scheme, and it looks as if we are finally there. (is there any emoticon for pressing both thumbs? ;-) ) Ciao /Andreas
