On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 9:37 AM, Uwe Thuemmel <accou...@uwethuemmel.com> wrote:
> Dear fellow users, > > I have figures (as pdf) and tables (as LyX child documents) in > subdirectories ./figures and ./tables. When I export from LyX 2.3.0 on Mac > to LaTeX (pdflatex), the relative paths to these figures and tables are > messed up. In particular, they are replaced by absolute paths where ‘/‘ is > replaced by ‘_'. For example, a relative path /figures/figure1.pdf is > replaced by something like 1_users_user_project_project1_figures_figure1.pdf. > In addition, LyX places pdf files with these names as > 1_users_user_project_project1_figures_figure1.pdf in the same directory > as the main LyX file (but does not do so for the tables contained in LyX > child documents). As a result, the TeX file does not compile correctly and > I have to edit it by hand to adjust the paths. I’d much rather see LyX keep > the relative paths when exporting to LaTeX. Sometimes this actually works - > but I don’t know why. Can anyone help? > > Thank you, > Uwe > Uwe, I experienced something that may be similar on Mac. Are you able to test also with LyX 2.2.3? In my case, LyX 2.2.3 would behave how I expect but not LyX 2.3.0. Also, are you able to post a MWE <https://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/MinimalExample> that has the problem for others to test with? Thanks, Joel
