Multi-Document Thesis in Lyx Across Many Computers

Question

I've recently migrated to LyX from LaTeX, recognizing some of the tradeoffs. There is one however I can't seem to work with.

I have a multi document LyX project, it's my thesis. I have a main file that only contains child documents. I keep my entire thesis under careful version control, and so it has its own directory structure that I keep consistent to minimize manual edits (e.g. I edit a code that is included as a listing, then when I checkout the new version on a new computer it should automatically compile with the new code wherever I have included it)

However LyX keeps maintaining a static directory structure: the one associated with my laptop (e.g.: /users/me/temp/temp2/checked_out_thesis/). I however move around a lot and often edit on different machines. This presents frustrating compilation issues, and often I manually have to go through and change the paths on all the figures and listings.

Is there a way to use only one path, independently of what machine I might be on?

Answer 1

You can add a script that automatically corrects that (using sed for example) for you.

But on my LyX version 2.0.4 it puts the relative paths if the files you are including are in the same folder as the tex file. Are you using the LyX graphic formats conversions ?