On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 09:59:01PM +0200, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Bo Peng wrote: > > > However, people are unhappy about one particular > > problem: > > > > Files with full path name can be embedded, and works as usual when > > embedded. However, it can be troublesome when this file is extracted > > under a different operating system. E.g. how would you extract > > /usr/local/image/my.img under windows? The current solution is that > > users can choose to save to a different directory (with needed changes > > in .lyx file), but the problem may happen again, assuming another > > absolute-path file is used, if the .lyx file is sent back to the > > original file system, and extract over there. > > Is the other problem people are unhappy about solved? I.e., the problem > where files without paths that are managed by TeX's kpathsea system (and > stored in the texmf tree) were erroneosuly saved as being in the document > (relative) path (bug 4649)?
I think it would be solvable with the "homegrown links" I just suggested. Andre'