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

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

On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 11:10 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 22:02 -0500, Ted Pavlic wrote:
> > >> ln -sf tmp/foo.pdf
> > > 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.
> > 
> > Well, if you plan on keeping that tmp directory around for more than a 
> > few builds, the symlink:
> > 
> > cd tmp
> > ln -sf ../foo.pdf
> > 
> > works just as well, but the "foo.pdf" that shows up in your main 
> > directory isn't a symlink. Maybe that's a better fit?
> > 
> > --Ted
> > 
> If it stays around a while, both ways work =). I suppose it WOULD stay
> around a while though, so not a big deal.
> 
> *tangentially, I recall with some other apps I tried they would
> overwrite symlinks, I guess its to do with how they access the file?*
> 
Testing this out, I notice that if I use -jobname, \lv will complain
that a file is not found (foo.tex producing bar.dvi, of course \lv looks
for foo.dvi). Can this be dealt with (changing the argument sent to
g:Tex_ViewRule_dvi)?