Dear all,
This is probably something that has come up before, but so far I haven't found a solution: My problem concerns automatic file path expansion in my org-ref setting. According to the instructions in https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref and https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/4gudyw/help_me_with_my_orgmode_workflow_for_notetaking/ I set up the paths to my bibliography, my notes and my pdfs like this: (setq org-ref-bibliography-notes "~/Dropbox/bibliography/notes.org" org-ref-default-bibliography '("~/Dropbox/bibliography/references.bib") org-ref-pdf-directory "~/Dropbox/bibliography/bibtex-pdfs/") Navigation to a bibtex entry and running org-ref-open-bibtex-notes creates an orgmode heading in notes.org that contains a link to the pdf file of the publication. Unfortunately, that link uses an expanded file path, i.e: /home/<username>/Dropbox/bibliography/bibtex-pdfs/BibtexKey.pdf so it is useless when generated by a different user. Would it be possible to create a link that does not expand the file path, like this ~/Dropbox/bibliography/bibtex-pdfs/BibtexKey.pdf I appreciate your help. Georg