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From: Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
Subject: Re: relative paths in links
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:57:29 -0500
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In-Reply-To: <49ED6F63.7090908@unibas.ch> (=?utf-8?Q?=22J=C3=B6rg?=
	Hagmann"'s message of "Tue\, 21 Apr 2009 09\:01\:55 +0200")
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To: =?utf-8?Q?J=C3=B6rg?= Hagmann <joerg.hagmann@unibas.ch>
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Hi J=C3=B6rg,

J=C3=B6rg Hagmann <joerg.hagmann@unibas.ch> writes:

> Hi,
>
> when writing a relative link, e.g.:
>
> [[../index.html][Home]]
>
> This gets immediately converted to an absolute path:
>
> [[~/some/path/index.html][Home]]
>
> This is obviously useless when exporting to html. I'm sure I missed
> something, but what?

You can set the value of org-link-file-path-type to relative. My guess
is that in your case it is currently set either to absolute or adaptive.

Regards,
Matt