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

[Mike R. <ri...@um...>]

Hi all,

I always sort of just took the auxiliary files for granted, but now I
like the idea of avoiding the clutter.

I compile all of my documents using latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf.  Now I
adjusted my g:Tex_CompileRule_pdf so that it stores all the auxiliary
files in the .build/ subdirectory.  It just copies the files out of
there to do the compile, and moves the new versions back into .build
afterwards.  The subdir is created automatically.

Here's the relevant section in my ~/.vim/ftplugin/tex.vim:


let g:Tex_DefaultTargetFormat='pdf'
let g:Tex_MultipleCompileFormats='pdf'
let g:Tex_CompileRule_pdf='mkdir -p .build'
            \.'&& cp .build/* .'
            \.';  latex -interaction=nonstopmode -shell-escape $*.tex'
            \.'&& dvips -P pdf -q  $*.dvi'
            \.'&& rm -f $*.dvi'
            \.'&& ps2pdf $*.ps'
            \.'&& rm -f $*.ps'
            \.'&& mv *.aux *.bbl *.bl *.blg *.lof *.log *.lot *.nav *.out *.toc'
            \.'   .build/'


Hope someone finds this useful too :)

-Mike Richman