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'

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