Wolfgang Engelmann writes: > > Is there a better way of getting all figures/tables in the same folder > so that the tar.gz has no subtrees? > I often get figures from other folders/subfolders (e.g. by a colleague) > which especially with larger documents I notice not before I have > archived (>file>export>lyx archive) the document. > If so, I copy these files in the main folder. However, lyx remembers the > former path(es) and does not find the copied one. What I do is to open > the lyx file with an editor and remove the (now wrong) paths, which is > easier than going through the individual items changing paths in lyx. > I just wonder, whether there is a lyx way of doing it (so to speak, > resetting the paths to a default - the figure only).
No, there is currently no way to do that within LyX. Note that this is not a problem with a lyx archive only. If you have figures outside the document dir and you try to export to latex, if a figure needs to be converted to a format the particular latex flavor can handle, the converted figure is placed alongside the original one. So, for example, if you reference a figure in a directory where you don't have write permission, the export fails. All of this could be handled by adding a submenu entry (maybe in the "Document" menu) "Copy files to document dir" (or something along that line). This would cause LyX to scan all used files and copy those outside the document dir to a common subdir named <docname>-files, updating also the internal paths. In this way, both export and archive will produce a self-contained subtree. Please, feel free to file an enhancement request at http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome.
