> > 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. > > The only way to get that would be using relative paths, no?
Because absolute paths such as '/var/blah' is not portable, relative paths are more useful for referring to 'the same' external files across different machines. However, because a relative out of tree path also carries directory structure information, it should be handled in the same way as absolute paths. Cheers, Bo
