[tex4ht] [bug #429] htlatex: Does not delete intermediate files

[Nasser M. Abbasi]

On 7/2/2019 11:15 AM, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> URL:
>    <http://puszcza.gnu.org.ua/bugs/?429>
> 
>                   Summary: htlatex: Does not delete intermediate files
>                   Project: tex4ht
>              Submitted by: hpreusse
>              Submitted on: Tue 02 Jul 2019 07:12:16 PM EEST
>                  Category: None
>                  Priority: 5 - Normal
>                  Severity: 3 - Minor
>                    Status: None
>                   Privacy: Public
>               Assigned to: None
>          Originator Email:
>               Open/Closed: Open
>           Discussion Lock: Any
> 
>      _______________________________________________________
> 
> Details:
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/554637
> 
> I've noticed that running
> 
> htlatex test.tex "xhtml,ooffice,enumerate+" "ooffice/! -cunihtf -utf8" "-coo"
> 
> pollutes current directory with the following intermediate files:
> 
> test.4ct
> test.4tc
> test.dvi
> test.idv
> test.tmp
> test.xref
> 
> As htlatex is actually trying to do some cleanup, I think these should be
> removed as well. I only expect the following files to stay:
> 
> test.lg
> test.odt
> 

tex4ht nor make4ht delete any files after compiling.

You could do this in your Makefile. This is part of one
of my makefiles. I delete all temp files before building.
You can add to this list any files you want deleted.

==== Makefile===
....
all:: index.htm index.pdf
....
index.htm : index.tex  title.tex pre.tex Makefile
	-rm -f index.aux
	-rm -f index.ind
	-rm -f index.idv
	-rm -f index.lg
	-rm -f index.tmp
	-rm -f index.4tc
	-rm -f index.4ct
	-rm -f index.xref
	-rm -f index.dvi
	-rm -f index.log
	-rm -f index.tmp
	-rm -f index.css
	-rm -f *.htm
	-rm -f index.ilg
	make4ht ......  <---- add your tex4ht command here as needed
....
.PHONY: clean

clean::   <---- add target for just cleaning
       -rm -f etc......

======= Makefile ====

So now I just do

make index.htm or make all and all temporary files from last build
are deleted before the build.

Or do "make clean" to just remove temporary files

--Nasser