Dear Philip,
This does indeed work as hoped, but it introduces two new problems, one of which I have solved (TeX no longer finds the generated auxiliary files -- solution : add parent directory of output directory and all sub-directories thereof to TEXINPUTS.xetex in "texmf.cnf")
If an output directory is defined by a user, the TeX library first searches for files to read in the output directory. Therefore files such as foo.aux should be read successfully with the default TEXINPUTS.xetex etc. In fact, it is working like this here. Please try once more with the default TEXINPUTS.xetex. Best, Akira -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
