Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: >> If there is already a list of dependencies, it should be easy. >> If not, then it might be tricky.... > > Would it not be easy to create a shell/perl/python script that would > simply look for all the external file references and create a list > of full paths? Like: > > % lyx_file_includes foo.lyx > foo.lyx > img/bar.gif > misc/foo.fig
These aren't full paths. They are relative ones. > And this would enable us to do things like: > > tar cvzf mydoc.tgz `lyx_file_includes foo.lyx` > > What do you all think? When you untar it, the files will be all over the place again. I think that it would be better if Mark created a sensible structure for his document. Eg, foo.lyx images/bar.gif biblio.bib Even if the bar.gif, biblio.bib were symolic links. Can 'tar' be convinced to copy the file pointed to my a sym link? -- Angus