Paul A. Rubin wrote:
If your advisor has installed (or is willing to install) the MinSYS
system (subsystem? package? whatever), you can use symbolic links. I
believe MinSYS is mandatory for LyX 1.3.6 and later on Windows.
From MinSYS's interactive shell, you create the link pretty much as you
would on Linux, other than to remember that the C: drive is /c in
MinSYS. So, for instance, you would use
ln -s /c/papers/bibliography ./ref
on her machine. Alternatively, you can do the same thing from a DOS
command prompt, by providing the path to ln if necessary, for instance
"C:\Program Files\msys\1.0\bin\ln.exe" -s /c/papers/bibliography ./ref
(assuming the default installation location).
I've tried it here (Win XP) and it seems to work as expected.
Paul
Paul, thanks a lot you for the tip. I happened to have Cygwin installed
one my machine, so I gave it a try. My setup is the following: I have
windows version of LyX 1.3.5 downloaded from LyX.org. I tried to create
the sym-link in Cygwin and run LyX from there.
However, it did not work. The command "ln -s a b" run from Cygwin simply
creates Windows shortcut. But LyX run from Cygwin won't recognize the
shortcut as a link... obviously it ignores Cygwin altogether.
You mentioned MinSYS being required for LyX 1.3.6. What does it mean?
Does it mean that LyX will understand shortcuts in Windows?
I'm going to try to install MinSYS now.
Thanks again,
David
