Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > which I would like to post again since it was not answered:
I was sure I answered, but appearantly I did not. > I wonder whether there could be something like an archive for a lyx file > and the additional stuff for it (such as figures, bibliography). It would > help to keep things neatly together without bothering about pathes. Personally I think that it is the wrong direction to add file archiving capabilities to lyx, I prefer to use specialized tools for that task. You should file this as an enhancement request on bugzilla if you don't want it to be forgotten. > So if I have finished work with a lyx file and all its figures I would > evoke in Lyx: export to archive. Next time I want to work with it after > perhaps having moved it to another place or even another machine I would > ask LyX to open the archive and, voila, no problems anymore with pathes. What problem with pathes do you have exactly? The image path problem when merging files that you mentioned is a bug and independent from the archive question and should be fixed. I might look at that some day, but at the moment there is no free time... > I might underestimate the work involved, but perhaps there is already some > workaround on this line? I use the following: put all files in a directory (and maybe subdirectories), e. g. mydoc mydoc/images mydoc/bib and then use only relative paths in the lyx file. Then, you can just make a tarball of mydoc. If you need it again, extract the tarball somewhere, and everything works, even on another place or machine. You will get problems if you have nested includeded lyx files deeper than one level (http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=605). This has been fixed in 1.4, for 1.3 you have to avoid that situation. Georg
