Re: Updating pointers to floating figures when document moved

2017-04-05 Thread Joel Kulesza
On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 12:57 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > another useful (for me) technique is to put >> symlinks in the document-specific local images directory to the images >> that reside elsewhere. When I move the folder containing the doc and >> images (or just move

Re: Updating pointers to floating figures when document moved

2017-04-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 5 Apr 2017, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Regarding your last point, which I take to mean that not all images "belong" to a single document, another useful (for me) technique is to put symlinks in the document-specific local images directory to the images that reside elsewhere. When I move the

Re: Updating pointers to floating figures when document moved

2017-04-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 04/05/2017 02:41 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 5 Apr 2017, Paul A. Rubin wrote: The .lyx file is text, so you could use something like sed, or open it in a text editor and do a global S Paul, Duh! Of course. Having switched from LaTeX in emacs to LyX I first think to use the GUI

Re: Updating pointers to floating figures when document moved

2017-04-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 5 Apr 2017, Paul A. Rubin wrote: The .lyx file is text, so you could use something like sed, or open it in a text editor and do a global S Paul, Duh! Of course. Having switched from LaTeX in emacs to LyX I first think to use the GUI rather than emacs. Of course, I do most writing

Re: Updating pointers to floating figures when document moved

2017-04-05 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 04/05/2017 01:38 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: It's not uncommon for me to re-arrange .lyx documents by moving or copying them to different subdirectories. I will move or copy embedded figures, too, but the settings are not automatically updated. As a result, I need to go through the document

Updating pointers to floating figures when document moved

2017-04-05 Thread Rich Shepard
It's not uncommon for me to re-arrange .lyx documents by moving or copying them to different subdirectories. I will move or copy embedded figures, too, but the settings are not automatically updated. As a result, I need to go through the document (which might contain many figures, 52 in today's