Re: LaTeX beamer export: relative file links?

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

James Harkins <jamshark70@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm writing presentations for my classes using beamer export from org-mode (which is working
> beautifully, btw -- it's faster than LibreOffice impress and I get a convenient plain text archive
> of my slide contents to boot).
> 
> I'm authoring in Linux but I have to show the pdfs in windows. That's generally no problem,
> except... this week I wanted a link on one slide to an mp3 audio example. I entered the link in
> org-mode as a relative path ./blah.mp3, which either org or latex expanded to a UNIX-style full
> path. (I'm guessing org.) Obviously windows would not understand the UNIX path.
> 
> The question, then: Is it possible to use relative paths for file links in latex export? (I admit, I
> haven't searched for customize variables before writing this- apologies if it's obvious. I spent
> most of my research time this week setting up a mingw build environment for SuperCollider, so I'm a
> bit search-fatigued I'm afraid.)
> 

Maybe this:

,----
| org-link-file-path-type is a variable defined in `org.el'.
| Its value is adaptive
| 
| Documentation:
| How the path name in file links should be stored.
| Valid values are:
| 
| relative  Relative to the current directory, i.e. the directory of the file
|           into which the link is being inserted.
| absolute  Absolute path, if possible with ~ for home directory.
| noabbrev  Absolute path, no abbreviation of home directory.
| adaptive  Use relative path for files in the current directory and sub-
|           directories of it.  For other files, use an absolute 
`----

Nick