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&R.
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 and data
munging in emacs so I have no excuse.
FWIW, I typically uses relative paths to figures. On something I'm
working
on now, there's an "images" subfolder in its home folder, and so figures
refer to "images/<filename>". As long as I keep the images folder
together
with the document in a move, I shouldn't need to update anything.
I, too, put figures in an images/ subdirectory, but sometimes there are
more than one of those when the document integrates multiple subjects
(e.g.,
spatial, biological, chemical, and statistical).
Thanks for pointing out the obvious. :-)
Regards,
Rich
No worries. Generally speaking, when I'm editing something "native" to a
particular program, whether it's a document in a document editor or
source code in an IDE, I tend to assume that I should everything with
that program. So I sympathize with the "lock-in".
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 folder containing the doc
and images (or just move the doc and images folder), the connections to
the stationary images remain intact.
Paul
