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Details of the database directory

The directory ~/.gletextemp is used to store temporary created files used for replacement of the (La)TeX expressions. The produced encapsulated postscript files are not deleted after running gle, because they can be reused, if the same expression occurs again later. This causes a substantial faster processing of gletex files once the (La)TeX expressions are available in the database.

Additionally to the encapsulated postscript files gletex stores an index file containing the expressions available in the database. Furthermore the write access to the database is locked by a lock file. This makes is tolerably stable to ensure that two simultaneously running versions of gletex destroy the database content. The start of a second gletex is disabled if the lock file already exists.

gletex doesn't handle signals currently. Therefore the locking mechanism is still active after killing gletex by <Ctrl>C or an explizit kill command. Then gletex can't run anymore until the database is cleaned up as written in the error message of gletex. The easiest and strongly recommended solution in such a case is to remove the hole database directory by executing "rm -fr ~/.gletextemp" at your shell. Important files are never lost by erasing this directory, because all the datas temporary stored there are automatically reproduced by gletex if they are needed again. If you rerun gletex on you last processed files, only the execution of gletex is slowed down.