Hi developers, The problem:
When I wrote my thesis it was helpful for me to include the full path of the images as they would be located throughout my computer together with notes and the macros that generated them. Thus, if I wanted to update a plot I could easily locate the macro, which I saved under the same name but different extension, and reproduce the plot without having to think too much. Now when I came to sending my thesis to another person for proof reading or moving a copy to my netbook, of course all the links to the images would be broken. Solution: - A macro could be generated to copy all graphics to a central chosen folder. - The full path could be replaced by a short path to the local folder. - An undo option to allow a modified document to return to using the original directories would be also helpful. I am sure a simple bash script could be made to do deal with the above, but I did not have time to figure it out so I resorted to modifying everything with Find and Replace with a text editor, which was also rather time consuming. Having macros built in to LyX would be more helpful as one rarely has time to fiddle before sending a document off for proof reading. If anyone could give any examples of how they deal with the above problem that would also be very helpful. Cheers, Chris.
