From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joost Kremers Subject: Re: Export LaTeX file to different directory? Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:15:45 +0100 Message-ID: <20101213171545.GD283@pc201.uni-germanistik.gwdg.de> References: <20101213104732.GA283@pc201.uni-germanistik.gwdg.de> <15397.1292255865@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49152 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PSC4F-0007NR-8I for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:20:13 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PSC05-0003GT-RI for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:16:07 -0500 Received: from amailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.18]:47320) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PSC05-0003GG-M4 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:15:49 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15397.1292255865@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Nick Dokos , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:57:45AM -0500, Nick Dokos wrote: > Joost Kremers 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. -- Joost Kremers Life has its moments