Re: [Vim-latex-devel] Able to do compilation in a sub-directory?

[Ng Oon-Ee <ng...@gm...>]

On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 12:34 -0500, Mike Richman wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Ng Oon-Ee <ng...@gm...> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 14:27 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm coming from a texlipse (Eclipse plug-in) background. Been through
> >> the Latex-Suite Reference, but could not find this particular 'feature'.
> >>
> >> Would it be possible to do a compile in a specific subdirectory (by
> >> default ./tmp in texlipse). This helps prevent clutter in the main
> >> directory.
> >>
> >> I've not checked, but I believe texlipse does this using the
> >> --output-directory option of tex/pdflatex. Would changing
> >> g:Tex_CompileRule_* allow me to have this behaviour (all the temporary
> >> files like aux,bbl,blg,log,out,toc in ./tmp but the final output dvi/pdf
> >> in ./)?
> >>
> >
> > I take it this is not possible, then?
> 
> In principle, if you can determine the commands used to make it happen
> in the shell, then you can get vim-latex to do it for you as well.
> I've never tried compiling in a subdir, though.
> 
> Let us know if you can manage to do it at the command line.
> 
> -Mike Richman

Hmm, from checking more closely, it seems all texlipse does is move the
temp files out of the compilation folder after a completed (or partially
completed) compile. No point if its done that way then.

I was thinking more along the lines of how programs can be compiled in a
clean build directory, but perhaps that'd be a bit
complicated/unnecessary in this situation.

>From a bit of testing its obviously possible to do all output to a tmp
directory.

pdflatex -output-directory ./tmp foo.tex

The output file (foo.pdf) would also appear there, which is where the
lack of a -output-filename hampers things (if such would exist, we could
just specify the filename to be something like ../foo)