Re: Changed behaviour of point-and-click

[Mark Knoop]

At 10:32 on 17 May 2016, Urs Liska wrote:
>Am 17.05.2016 um 14:30 schrieb Mark Knoop:
>> At 05:47 on 17 May 2016, Urs Liska wrote:  
>>> Mark, can you give us a reason why you consider relative
>>> point-and-click links "broken"?  
>> I am unaware of any way for the pdf viewer, or the whatever handles
>> the textedit url, to know what the link is relative to. Correct me
>> if I am wrong on this.  
>
>I think the links should be relative to the location of the PDF. But as
>David pointed out it's less trivial than one might think to determine
>what that properly is always.

Indeed, it's not trivial for lilypond to know that, but that is not my
point.

Even if the links *are* valid, relative to the location of the pdf, do
you then expect the pdf viewer to convert them to absolute links?
Evince certainly doesn't do that. Maybe other pdf viewers do.

Or instead, if the relative link is passed to the url-handler (usually
via a desktop environment such as Gnome, Windows, etc), how does that
handler know what the link is relative to? i.e.: what file should

lilypond-invoke-editor textedit://file.ly:1:2:3

open?

Could you indicate a working setup where relative point-and-click links
are *not* broken?

-- 
Mark Knoop