On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 12:19:05AM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 September 2003 10:53 pm, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote:
> > Under Cygwin, LyX already attempts to fix the path (for all exported
> > files, paths to pictures, etc). The fix is to output the Windows name
> > (e.g. "C:/Cygwin/Home/Kayvan/foo.lyx") for all file references.
>
> Well, apart from the final switch of '\' to '/', that seems like a sensible
> thing to do. (Yes, I understand that there are reasons to do that.)
>
> What I think would be interesting, however, is to try
>
> char dp[255];
> cygwin_conv_to_full_win32_path(p.c_str(), dp);
> - dos_path = subst(dp,'\\','/');
> + char dp_short[255];
> + GetShortPathName(dp, dp_short, 255);
> + dos_path = subst(dp_short,'\\','/');
>
> and see if that works too.
I'll have to try it tomorrow. I don't have access to the machine
where this happens right now.
> > This does not work when the underlying TeX installation is
> > the newest version of tetex for Cygwin.
>
> Ok, I'll bite. What goes wrong? Why?
The files are not found.
Apparently the newest Cygwin tetex no longer likes the
c:/cygwin/home/blah/blah paths and simply expects the paths to be in
normal Unix fashion (e.g. /home/blah/blah).
I didn't didn't deeper than that once I implemented my hackish workaround.
---Kayvan
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