Barbara, Thank you so much for your quick response.
And, I'm sorry but it seems no matter how hard I try to be accurate in creating the question I forget something. The line in File myDoc.apt.vm is set just as you say to set it (well except the Velocity docs all show the #set command with spaces after the open and before the close parenthesis, so in my document it actually looks like this): #set( $imagePath = "../../../images" ) But, I know the #set works because as you can see in line 1 of the generated output, the variable is correctly set, and when it uses the variable to get the image commonImage1.jpg on line 6, it correctly finds and displays the image. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@velocity.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@velocity.apache.org