[XeTeX] log files

[Jonathan Kew]

On 15 Mar 2005, at 7:25 am, suzume at mx82.tiki.ne.jp wrote:

> It seems xetex creates log files in the ~/ directory.
> Is there a preference to set that to a different one ? like 
> ~/Library/Logs/ for example ?
>

Actually, it should be creating both the output .pdf (or .xdv) file and 
the .log file in the current directory, whatever that happens to be.

Isn't this the normal behavior of all the TeX engines? E.g.,

nrsi-kew:~ jonathan$ ls -l story*
ls: story*: No such file or directory
nrsi-kew:~ jonathan$ tex 
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/plain/base/story.tex \\end
This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.3)
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/plain/base/story.tex [1])
Output written on story.dvi (1 page, 680 bytes).
Transcript written on story.log.
nrsi-kew:~ jonathan$ ls -l story*
-rw-r--r--  1 jonathan  staff  680 15 Mar 09:42 story.dvi
-rw-r--r--  1 jonathan  staff  268 15 Mar 09:42 story.log
nrsi-kew:~ jonathan$

Note the .dvi and .log created in the current directory (regardless of 
the location of the input).

I don't think XeTeX should go out on a limb and change this 
independently of the standard engines.

JK