When I use MiKTeX normally, I call this:
pdflatex --aux-directory="C:\Users\doncherry\Documents\LaTeX\AUXI_global" foo.tex
For latexmk outputting pdf (via pdfLaTeX) with continuous previewing, my attempt is
latexmk -pvc -pdf foo
with a file in the same directory called latexmkrc
(see p. 9 of the manual), containing
$pdflatex = 'pdflatex --aux-directory="C:\Users\doncherry\Documents\LaTeX\AUXI_global" %O %S'; $pdf_previewer = 'start "C:\Program Files (x86)\SumatraPDF\SumatraPDF.exe" %O %S';
This doesn't work, latexmk just runs pdflatex
once and the table of contents isn't generated. Latexmk produces the error message:
Latexmk: Errors, so I did not complete making targets Latexmk: (Pdf)LaTeX failed to generate a log file
How can I use the --aux-directory
option through latexmk?
Best Answer
I've made a new version of latexmk, which supports
-aux-directory
and-output-directory
. It's v. 4.27a and can be found athttp://www.phys.psu.edu/~collins/latexmk/versions.html
This version
will be submitted to CTAN fairly soon, but some feedback would be useful, since I have not tested the new features extensively, especially as I don't have current access to MiKTeXor a more recent one can be found on CTAN as well.Latexmk now has options
-auxdir
,-aux-directory
,-outdir
, and-out-directory
, plus corresponding configuration variables$aux_dir
and$out_dir
. See the documentation for more details. To achieve what the original poster wanted, it's sufficient to putin a latexmkrc file. (I've used forward slashes in directory names since these are acceptable to MS-Windows, and avoid running afoul of quoting conventions.)
I've done some tests with the
-output-directory
option, and the only problem that needs sorting out is that the combination of biblatex with bibtex doesn't work because a file needed by bibtex isn't in its usual place. (Biblatex with biber works, as do ordinary uses of bibtex.) If you don't use biblatex, the last issue doesn't affect you.