David Green wrote: > I am a LyX novice but in 1.1.6 versions, it appeared that a practice > was to specify graphic files without mentioning suffix so that if > one preconverted their files to the various formats that the > underlying tools needed, every thing would use it's preferred > extension. > > In 1.2pre4 just compiled, it appears that image specifications that > are without the suffix (say .eps) don't get discovered by LyX for > rendering. In other words, specifying the image "IMG" expecting LyX > to pick up IMG.eps and latex2html to pickup IMG.jpg . Is this > something that is no longer best (or even allowed) practice and > eliminated or ??? I am not fighting for the feature by the way, just > reporting a difference and asking intent. I can see both sides of the > choice.
LyX itself needs the "real" filename, means with extension. Remeber that 1.2.0 allows a lot of different graphic formats, which are converted to eps or pdf. But LyX exports this filename without extension, so that pdflatex for example works well. Herbert -- http://www.lyx.org/help/
