Re: Directory management in Metapost

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Tom Vethaak <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It seems that Metapost doesn't recognize folder paths, or in command line
> terms, doesn't obey the -output-directory. This makes it impossible to
> call it on files that are located in different folders.
> As an example/illustration of this issue, it restricts the file management
> in drawing diagrams in LaTeX (see e.g.
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/279009/save-feynman-diagram-files-in-a-subfolder
> ).
>
> Kind regards,
> Tom Vethaak
>
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>

yes, currently
 } else if (ARGUMENT_IS("translate-file") ||
               ARGUMENT_IS("output-directory") ||
               ARGUMENT_IS("no-parse-first-line")) {
      fprintf(stdout,"warning: %s: unimplemented option %s\n", argv[0],
argv[optind]);

I will see it asap.


-- 
luigi

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