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

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On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 21:22 -0500, Ted Pavlic wrote:
> > 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)
> 
> You can always supplement with symlinks. For example, just once:
> 
> ln -sf tmp/foo.pdf
> 
> Then anytime after that:
> 
> pdflatex -output-director ./tmp foo.tex
> 
> Suddenly a "foo.pdf" will get placed within the current directory, and 
> it should get updated every time you run pdflatex again.
> 
> --Ted
> 
Yes, I did think of that, but the symlink will always exist even if the
file does not =). Its plenty good enough though, so that's probably what
I'll use going forward.

Now to figure out whether this affects include paths etc.