On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 08:15:24AM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > Since it was somehow hidden I post here again what I wrote in the "Latest > changes in manuals" thread: > > I was now able to reproduce the changed paths. According to > http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9815 this works as designed: If a document > contains a valid \origin tag, then all relative paths are changed to > absolute ones constructed from \origin on saving. > > This is in general the wanted behaviour (and the reason for having \origin > at all), except for one case: Editing LyX documentation in a directory > which > is not the system dirctory as determined by the Package class in > src/support. In this case, the \origin machinery assumes that the user did > copy the doc to some other location, and that he wants to keep it separate > from the LyX installation. This assumption is wrong if one edits the docs > in > the source tree, and I agree that something needs to be done for this case. > > Unfortunately I am not sure what to do. Here are the alternatives I can > imagine: > > - Set \origin to unavailable for all docs in the sources. This would be > easy > to do, but also mean that we need to change it during installation (which > is > currently only implemented for autotools, not in cmake and not in the > windows installer) > > - Implement some heuristic to recognize if docs in a LyX in lib/doc > directory of a source tree are edited, and do not change paths if that is > the case. Not very transparent for the user, and strange things can happen > if the heuristic is wrong. > > - Do not change the paths in general if the files can be found using the > relative paths. Has the additional benefit that this is also the wanted > behaviour if I copy a whole directory of LyX files (including referenced > graphics) to a new location. Disadvantage would be that the machinery does > now depend on the presence of external files, and it is not guaranteed that > the file that is found is the correct one. > > Are there other possible solutions? I prefer the last one, since it does > not > get into the way of people who know what they are doing and copy a LyX file > including all needed dependencies. The current solution punishes these > people by requiring them to repair the incorrectly changed paths by hand, > or > by forcing them to disallow setting \origin in the preferences (but the > latter does not work if you receive files from collaborators which have > \origin set). > > Uwe and Kornel voted for the last option as well. I'll see if this can be > implemented easily.
Please, change it as you see fit. This is not a feature I wanted to implement but simply something introduced to fix some bugs I was asked to help fixing. -- Enrico
