Re: Insertion of xfig figures

[Helge Hafting]

Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote:
Hello,
I just found out this by mistyping a suffix (.fig instead of .eps) 
for the file name in the figure inset menu.

The figure is, say figures/foo.fig
foo.fig embeds epses (in fact, exported from latex), say bar.eps
as relative file names
Lyx fails to find bar.eps when insetting directly figures/foo.fig
It should cd to the dir in which the fig files are located before exporting, I 
guess.
I always export to eps myself, but it's just to make sure.
 

You can insert .fig figures by using the "external inset" instead
of a "figure".  This has advantages, you won't need to export
to .eps yourself, and you can use latex commands in text in the .fig too 
if you need
to. You can get the same font for .fig text as your document uses.

Helge Hafting