>> >>On 2003-10-07, 18:00 GMT, Guy Hindell wrote: >>> In the end I've just extended my perl scripts to copy the image >>> files to the build directory. Its a bit crude, but it works >>> fine.
>Why crude ? Seems OK to delegate OS tasks to a scripting language... >AFAIU, that's a mere extension if what is already used for doc >management. >In fact I understand it the other way: perl scripts delegate >complicated editing tasks to LyX/LaTeX (more frequently to LaTeX in >fact, >I use LyX only for table prettyprint as txt). The copying is only needed for the lyx export step. I can still refer to image files on the source side in the pdflatex step using the -include-directory flag (just treating pdflatex as a compiler and using my standard build tools for dependency checks etc.). Anyhow, it works, which is the main thing. Thanks guy
