Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Trailing, not heading /. But it seems I was misunderstanding the code.
And I was misunderstanding your post :-( >> I am not really sure how things work on cygwin. Can we always assume that >> all external paths are either windows or posix style? Or do we need posix >> paths in some cases and windows paths in others? > > The latter. On cygwin, depending on a checkbox status, external_path() > generates posix or windows style paths. This is because if you use > MikTeX you need win-style paths. The configure script checks what kind > of paths are needed and then sets the boolean \cygwin_path_fix_needed > in lyxrc.defaults. But then you can override it by a checkbox (which, > btw, is misnamed as it does the contrary of what its name implies). What I meant was: Do we need for one setting of cygwin_path_fix_needed both windos/posix styles, or does cygwin_path_fix_needed simply switch external_path() between the windows and posix version? Georg
