> As Jose has pointed out, there is no need for this information to be kept in > the LyX file itself, and in a sense it makes no sense to keep it there, > since it is machine-specific. So I still do not understand why you insist > upon keeping it there. If you don't keep it there, then none of the rest of > the discussion needs to be had.
The link between the embedded files and its original names does not have to be machine-specific. For example, when you embed all figures in our user's guide, the original names are not machine-specific. Taking our user's guide as an example, we may want to embed all figures so that it can be sent, modified and printed as a single document. However, because these figures are shared by all our documents, you may want to be able to un-embed these insets and continue to 'share' these figures across lyx documents. This is the major motivation for keeping the links in .lyx file. Bo
