Bo Peng wrote: > Since lyx/latex often uses external files, we need to have a clear > mind what to do exactly. I haven't thought about this clearly, but > figures etc may be all over the places, and in subdirectories.
Yes. It does not matter where exactly these files are, the different insets know how to find them. > Export->latex etc may help but I would like to keep the original > figures, not the converted ones. And lyx needs to be really clever to > handle the inclusion of .bst, .layout etc. Not really. The .layout files are a separate problem (because just including them is not enough). For the other files I would use a very simple rule: Don't include anything that can be found via TEXMF, only include files that are local. > So, the easiest solution, I think, is to let the user do the packing > job. What lyx can do, is No, please not. That will be difficult to teach to users, and it is possible to do it automatically. This could for example be done with something similar to runparams.exportdata->addExternalFile(tex_format, writefile, exportfile); in the write() methods (The example above is from InsetInclude::latex). > 1. provide a include ... menu so users can tell lyx which file(s) to > include in the saved .lyz file. Of course lyx can be a little more > clever to include the obvious ones. I would only use this possibility as a tool for advanced users to manually include the missing 5% of files. For most users the automatic inclusion should just work. Georg
