Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: > Georg Baum wrote: >> The reason for renaming the files was to be able to put everything in one >> temp dir. In 1.3 we had one temp dir per buffer, that lead to problems >> with included graphics. I would be possible to work around this in some >> different way, but that would not be trivial and need lots of testing. > > Isn't it possible to get access to the real filenames nevertheless, by > using symlinks or something?
No. If that would work we could have used the original filenames directly. Consider the included documents dir1/x.lyx dir2/x.lyx We can not copy them to the same dir. We could create subdirs, but then that does not work for absolute paths, or for ../../dir1/dir2/x.lyx. We would also get problems with files with spaces or other strange characters in the name. >> I'd prefer to add the \includeonly feature natively to LyX. > > While that would be nice, it would only cover the problem IMHO. Even if I > don't know any at the moment, we basically break every package (or LaTeX > command) that uses the filenames of subdocuments (or of their auxiliary > files). That is a drawback of that approach, yes. The same holds true for images. OTOH I can't imagine any other case where access to the real file name from the preamble or a ERT command is needed. We discussed this at length with Angus, and the result was that creating mangled file names is the best thing to do. Georg
