Georg Baum wrote:
> Richard Heck wrote:
>
>   
>> This is the result of a problem that Uwe noticed the other day with the
>> MikTeX implementation of the htlatex scripts: The scripts will not run
>> properly unless they are run in the same directory as the original file.
>>     
> Several other converters (e.g. lilypond) have the same limitation. Therefore
> LyX changes to the temp dir before running the converter. It would even be
> possible to call the converter with relative filenames, I am not sure
> anymore why absolute paths are used. 
Don't know. It was that way before.
> IMHO if you create a subdirectory LyX
> should change to that subdirectory before running the converter.
>   
It does.
>> The solution suggested in some
>> earlier discussion was to ship a small shell script with LyX that would
>> copy the .tex file to the temporary directory and then run htlatex on
>> that file. Thoughts?
>>     
> The .tex file _is_ in the temporary direcory. All conversions are run in the
> temp dir, I hope you did not change that.
>   
I didn't. I meant it should copy it to the NEW temporary directory, e.g.:
/tmp/lyx_098weras/lyx_tmpbuf0/file.html.conversion/
which is where the converted files will be dumped.

Richard

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