On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 02:38:38PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > I agree that being too clever should be avoided. However, I am not sure > wether this is a case of beeing too clever. The problem is: > > a) A relative name in the .lyx file should be translated to a relative name > in the .tex file > b) An absolute name should stay absolute. > > a) enables the user to easily move files around (or work with several > authors under cvs control), and b) is currently required in some cases if > we want to output the filename without the extension. This requirement > vanishes hopefully soon, but there might be others, maybe platform > specific. > > How do you want to achieve this if you have one variable with the absolute > name and one with the relative name and don't know anymore what the user > entered?
Well, one has to keep track of what the user entered somehow? Or are you refering to a lyx2lyx problem to decide which one was meant? Andre'