#269 — Jun 3, 2026 by Evan Chen

it took me five years but i think i finally found the right way to do cd-supported Asymptote in latexmkrc:

use File::Basename;
sub run_asy {
    my ($base, $dir) = fileparse($_[0]);
    return system("cd '$dir' && asy -tex pdflatex '$base'");
}

i'd been misusing asy -o all this time (not supposed to be for directories!) and nobody told me. sheesh.