LaTeX forum ⇒ LyX ⇒ estauto relative paths

[davidzentlermunro]

New lyx user here. Generally love it but have an issue using estauto with relative paths. When I use a full path it works fine (the lyx doc is in the paper folder):

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\estauto{C:/Dropbox/TopicX/paper/tables/Desc_Stat_2019new.tex}{15}{c}

When I use a relative path it doesn't find the file:

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\estauto{/tables/Desc_Stat_2019new.tex}{15}{c}

I get the error: "! LaTeX Error: File `/tables/Desc_Stat_2019new.tex' not found."

However, relative paths seem to work fine for coauthors (and also work fine for figures for me). Any help much appreciated. Here is the preamble section for estauto:

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% *****************************************************************
% Estout related things
% *****************************************************************
\let\estinput=\input % define a new input command so that we can still flatten the document
 
\newcommand{\estwide}[4][1]{
  \small{
        \vspace{-1ex}{
            \textsymbols% Note the added command here
            \begin{tabularx}
            {#1\textwidth}{H*{#3}{#4}}
            \toprule
            \estinput{#2}
            \bottomrule
            \addlinespace[.75ex]
            \end{tabularx}
            }
        }   
  }
 
\newcommand{\estauto}[3]{
  \small{
        \vspace{-1ex}{
            \textsymbols% Note the added command here
            \begin{tabular}{l*{#2}{#3}}
            \toprule
            \estinput{#1}
            \bottomrule
            \addlinespace[.75ex]
            \end{tabular}
            }
        }
  }
 
% Allow line breaks with \\ in specialcells
\newcommand{\specialcell}[2][c]{%
    \begin{tabular}[#1]{@{}c@{}}#2\end{tabular}
}

[Ijon Tichy]

If a path starts with a slash, it is always an absolute path from the root directory (of the current drive). So either use tables/Desc_Stat_2019new.tex (recommended) or dot syntax ./tables/Desc_Stat_2019new.tex

Note: I'm never using LyX.

[davidzentlermunro]

Thanks, however neither of the suggested solutions worked: file still unrecognised (note my original code works for coauthors, just not me! this makes me think there's something I haven't yet installed that I should).