> Embedding files with absolute paths should imply to copy them to a temporary > directory. We want our documents to behave the same way regardless of where > they are. > > To me this problem has some similarities with the cursor saving. We don't > save the document position in the document but in the session (local) stuff. > Absolute file paths could be stored locally in the session, but they should > never be in the (portable) lyx file.
The absolute-path files *are* in a temporary directory as long as you do not extract them. I do not know what you meant by "absolute file paths could not be stored" because this has been what lyx is doing for ages. Bo
