Have you tried NOT including the '.tex' extension on the \input{} command,
whether or not you're using a relative path? If I remember correctly, you have
to leave that bit off (for which reason I don't know, but that's how TeX
expects it). Include everything else, though.
On Thu 20 Oct 2011 05:25:57 PM EEST, Oscar Lopez wrote:
>> Dear LyXers
>>
>> I have recenty updated my lyx version to lyx 2.0.1 and I have found that
>> using relative paths to tex files at the lyx preamble does not work anymore.
>>
>> I have directory structures where lyx files are at some directories, bib
>> files at other, latex preamble commands at othes, and so on ... The lyx
>> preamble contains some input commands to take the corresponding latex
>> preamble, i.e.
>> \input{../common/preamble.tex}.
>>
>> In this way I can share project directories with other colleagues (for
>> instance using svn). We always use relative paths in order to ensure that the
>> compilation does not break.
>>
>> Now when I am trying to compile some documents from lyx 1.6.10 I have found
>> that lyx 2.0.1 stops the compilation saying
>> LaTeX Error: File `../common/preamble.tex' not found
>>
>> If I export the latex file using Export->latex (pdflatex) and from a terminal
>> I run pdflatex:
>> $pdflatex test.tex
>>
>> everything is ok!
>>
>> Attached to this message you can find a minimal example showing the problem.
>> Look at the file located at test/doc/test.lyx and try to pdflatex it from lyx
>> and after from a terminal.
>>
>> Please has something changed regarding the treatment that lyx gibes to
>> absolute versus relative paths? Hope not! I am completely puzzled with this
>> behaviour and perhaps I am missing something evident.
>>
>> Best regards
>> TIA
>> Oscar
>>
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