January 2011
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Compile LaTeX source without the trash
When compiling LaTeX documents pdflatex generates .aux and .log files in the process of generating the output .pdf. These auxiliary files are only mildly annoying, but when writing a LaTeX document in a Dropbox-synced directory, those files are synchronized every time you compile — what was mildly annoying becomes wasteful garbage. Since currently Dropbox does not support file exclusion,...