Re: lyx 2.0.0 URL error unable to open external file on Ubuntu 11.10 . File path is correct!! Solved

2012-04-09 Thread AJR
I solved it, the solution was really simple, but not at all obvious to me given how careful one must usually be with file paths in any *nix application.Most apps do not fill in anything for you. Knocking the leading / off the file path solved the problem. Instead of putting /home/foo/bar.xls in

Re: lyx 2.0.0 URL error unable to open external file on Ubuntu 11.10 . File path is correct!! Solved

2012-04-09 Thread Paul A . Rubin
AJR alasdair at iprimus.com.au writes: Do you knock off the leading forward slash off the file path when you use that feature? Just seems counter intuitive to me. No, I don't; I include the initial slash. In fact, I just tested this with a new document (LyX 2.0.1 on Linux Mint 11), and it

Re: lyx 2.0.0 URL error unable to open external file on Ubuntu 11.10 . File path is correct!! Solved

2012-04-09 Thread AJR
I solved it, the solution was really simple, but not at all obvious to me given how careful one must usually be with file paths in any *nix application.Most apps do not fill in anything for you. Knocking the leading / off the file path solved the problem. Instead of putting /home/foo/bar.xls in

Re: lyx 2.0.0 URL error unable to open external file on Ubuntu 11.10 . File path is correct!! Solved

2012-04-09 Thread Paul A . Rubin
AJR alasdair at iprimus.com.au writes: Do you knock off the leading forward slash off the file path when you use that feature? Just seems counter intuitive to me. No, I don't; I include the initial slash. In fact, I just tested this with a new document (LyX 2.0.1 on Linux Mint 11), and it

Re: lyx 2.0.0 URL error "unable to open external file" on Ubuntu 11.10 . File path is correct!! Solved

2012-04-09 Thread AJR
I solved it, the solution was really simple, but not at all obvious to me given how careful one must usually be with file paths in any *nix application.Most apps do not fill in anything for you. Knocking the leading / off the file path solved the problem. Instead of putting /home/foo/bar.xls in

Re: lyx 2.0.0 URL error "unable to open external file" on Ubuntu 11.10 . File path is correct!! Solved

2012-04-09 Thread Paul A . Rubin
AJR iprimus.com.au> writes: > Do you > knock off the leading forward slash off the file path when you use that > feature? Just seems counter intuitive to me. No, I don't; I include the initial slash. In fact, I just tested this with a new document (LyX 2.0.1 on Linux Mint 11), and it worked