On 24/07/2021 9:00 am, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
On 7/23/21 4:14 PM, Rudi Gaelzer wrote:
Is there a way to instruct Lyx to write certain auxiliary files into
the local directory, instead of in /tmp/lyx_tmpdirxxx?
Is it LyX or LaTeX (pdflatex?) that writes the auxiliary files? I
suspect the latter, in which case I'm pretty sure the answer to your
question is no. You could create a custom export format and tell LyX
to invoke a shell script (written by you) that would run whatever
LaTeX commands were needed and then copy the selected files to the
local directory (which I believe you can convince LyX to pass as an
argument to the script). That's complicated enough that you might be
better off just writing a script that copies the target files to the
local directory and run it manually after compiling documents.
I haven't followed this thread with any attention so may well have
missed the point, but I wonder if LyX's copier mechanism is what you
want? I'm thinking of the script ext_copy.py that comes with LyX (in
Resources/scripts). For example, to copy the *.aux files back to your
document directory from the temp directory, in Tools>Preferences>File
Handling>File Formats select the format PDF (pdflatex) and in the Copier
slot put
python -tt $$s/scripts/ext_copy.py -e pdf,aux -d $$i $$o
then click OK. Now when you export to pdf by the pdflatex route, not
only will you get the pdf in your document directory but also any aux
files.
If you want to look at the aux files without the burden of compiling to
pdf, a good trick is to export to Plain text, which is quick even for
large complex documents, and in the Copier slot under Plain text to enter
python -tt $$s/scripts/ext_copy.py -e aux -d $$i $$o
Notice that only files with the extension aux are to be copied back.
That means the plain text file resulting from the export, which you are
unlikely to be interested in, stays in the temp directory and doesn't
clutter your document directory, but the aux files do get copied back to
there.
Andrew
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