relative refernces

[Steve Litt]

Daniel said on Sun, 21 May 2023 20:18:37 +0200

>On 2023-05-19 01:02, Josh Burdeshaw wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Am trying to create a link to a .msg (email) file. I am able to
>> create a working link using the \href{URL}{text} only when the link
>> is an absolute path. When I change the path to a relative path the
>> link gives the following message:
>> 
>> image.png
>> 
>> -- 
>> Josh Burdeshaw
>>   
>
>Looks like an interesting issue for LyX. Maybe there should be an
>option to create the PDF in the directory of the LyX file. The easiest
>would be probably to first create the PDF as usual, but then put a
>copy of it into the document directory and open that.
>
>Daniel

I usually just have a shellscript to export to PDF or LaTeX, and if
LaTeX, compile it. Also deal with images needing conversion. Within that
shellscript I can set any directories I want to. I enjoy this method
because I know exactly every step of the conversion process.

SteveT

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