Re: Export LaTeX file to different directory?

[Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:57:45AM -0500, Nick Dokos wrote:
> Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> > If I export (part of) an org-mode file to LaTeX, the LaTeX file is created in
> > the same directory as the org-mode file. Is there a way to specify the file
> > should go somewhere else? Googling and looking through the manual didn't give me
> > anything concrete. There is apparently a property EXPORT_FILE_NAME, but setting
> > this doesn't seem to have any effect. (Though I may be using it wrong, there
> > wasn't any description or example of it in the manual... Plus, I'd like to be
> > able to specify just the export directory, not necessarily the file name as well.)
> 
> If the more refined methods don't work for you, here is a somewhat
> brute-force way:
> 
> #+BIND: org-export-publishing-directory "/tmp"

thanks, but this doesn't seem to work for me at all. :-(

i'm using org version 7.4, if that's relevant at all. the variable
org-export-publishing-directory is defined in org-exp.el (with defvar and a
FIXME...), but it's not used anywhere in a meaningful way, AFAICT.


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