Geoffrey Lloyd wrote:
This looks to me like a simple case of LyX not recognizing that a path which starts with a drive letter specification ("c:/") is an absolute path and not a relative one.
Could you try without the drive letter, that is setting the target to "/lyxfiles/thesis/ch3.tex"?
The solution! If i just remove the "c:/" i can include files from anywhere.
Hmm. I can reproduce the error (using LyX 1.3.5 on Win XP Pro), but with a different proximate cause and fix. I have no trouble including a file with an absolute path (including drive letter) if I specify the path either by using the browse button in the dialog (which brings the path in with "/" separators) or if I type it in with "/" separators. If I type it in with "\" separators, though, I get Geoffrey's error message.
So I suspect it's not the driver letter but the Unix v. Windows path separators at fault.
-- Paul
