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'

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