On Thursday 08 May 2008 22:23:57 Bo Peng wrote: > This assertion, 'placing even more information in the lyx file than > before', is plain wrong. Embeding is not placing *more* information in > the lyx file. It places the *same* information in the .lyx file as > before regarding the filepath issue. If you place filename.png in .lyx > file before, filename.png is used now. If you place /path/to/filename > in .lyx file before, /path/to/filename is used now.
But now we have also the file content. This is more information than before. Now I know that file with content X is at location Y (in the author's computer). Before I could not connect both X to Y. This is more than before. What will happen BTW if you add an embedded file located in computer and I add to the same embedded file another graphics located at my computer. Now the combined lyx file will have references to the absolute path of one file in your computer and another in mine? > I understand that this is a problem, but it is *not* a problem with > embedding. This is my basic understanding of the issue. The use of absolute paths has problems that have shown before. In same areas we have bouncing back between absolute and relative paths. > Cheers, > Bo -- José Abílio
