> On Feb 26, 2020, at 05:51, Jean-Pierre Chrétien <jeanpierre.chret...@free.fr> > wrote: > > Le 26/02/2020 à 07:47, Joel Kulesza a écrit : >> LyX Developers, >> Recently, I've been making increased, and good, use of PDF attachments >> (e.g., Appendix A of this technical report: >> https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1574726). >> I've achieved this with the `navigator` and `embedfile` packages using ERT. >> `embedfile` is my preferred approach because it interacts better with >> `tcolorbox`, has a slightly more simple interface, and has not otherwise >> caused problems or shown a deficiency. >> *Is there a way to achieve this natively in LyX?* I have not found a way >> via menus or Help. Sorry if I overlooked this. >> *If this is not currently possible, I want to solicit your thoughts on how >> to incorporate such functionality.* My immediate thought is by using the >> Insert -> File -> Child Document dialog with an additional checkbox to >> "Attach file to output". This assumes that the file will be included in the >> document in some other fashion. It is reasonable for someone to merely >> attach the file without incorporating it otherwise. In that case, this >> would not be quite right. Further, I opt for a checkbox rather than another >> dropdown entry to minimize the number of times the file must be >> browsed/specified (in case it should be listed and attached). >> I'm curious to hear your thoughts on how to proceed to achieve this >> functionality natively in LyX conveniently, intuitively, and while avoiding >> duplication of data (i.e., file paths). *Once an approach is identified, >> I'll file a ticket in the tracker and will begin coding to that end.* >> In the meantime, please contact me with any comments, questions, or concerns. > > My personal practice to include pdf docs is to use pdfpages, as it allows to > keep the running headers and document page numbering and a lot of tricks.
I don’t just want to include PDFs. I want to include text (or other, sound, image, etc.) files, which I don’t want a reader to have to copy-and-paste to retrieve. -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel
