Spyros Stathopoulos wrote:
I think the problem is that LyX does not copy the "../common/preamble.tex" file over at the temporary build directory (usually something like /tmp/lyx_tmpdir.XXXX/lyx_tmpbufX/ by default). I have encountered this kind of behavior before (albeit in a different case) but I could not find any reasonable solution beyond providing the full path.
I do not know! As far as I know before lyx 2.0.1 using relative paths was the way to ensure to share projects that use many directories to organize the information. I have been using lyx since 1997 and never have a problem with this. In fact, I have been used to work in this way and it even worst I teach many people to do so.
It would be nice if there were a solution to this.
sure!
For your case, unless you must maintain this kind of directory structure, it might help you if you put your preamble.tex file in the same directory as your *.lyx file and use \input{preamble.tex} instead of a relative path.
This solution will be a nightmare! I got people at my institute to move from word to lyx and we have created many svn projects, books and many other things that rely on the fact that lyx can understand relative paths and in this way we can work all together. Hope there is something more evident.
I cannot believe that this version of lyx is going to drop the support to relative paths I put an example with a tex file, but what about child documents, graphic files and others that until now I didn't tested with lyx 2.0.1.
Although I am not entirely sure, in LyX 1.6.x there was a way to tell LyX to use the current WD instead of a temp one.
Here using lyx-1.6.10 with the test I sent everything is ok. As far as I am concerned it does not require to tell lyx anything
Thanks for your comments Best regards Oscar
Spyros 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
