Pavel Sanda wrote: >> It's in the LyX/Cygwin package here: >> ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.2/lyx-1.6.2-cygwin.tar.gz > > i see. imho worth to add such file somewere into development/.
Why not in the manuals? >> I think that a button "Use src-specials" coud be added to >> Preferences->Output->LaTeX such that \usepackage[active]{srcltx} >> is inserted in the preamble. After that, you simply need to Ctrl-click >> in the xdvi (maybe also kdvi) window to initiate the inverse search. >> In yap, it would be still necessary to modify the preferences from >> within the application. > > i'm not sure this is system-wide setting - there are only some documents > you want to use it and usually only in some part of editation process. > thats why i proposed view menu... or document settings? I think this is another case where we could have an rc (in LaTeX > Output) plus a document setting (in trunk: Document>Settings>Output). The former could be implemented in branch, the latter only in trunk. > secondly instead instead "Use src-specials" use something more general > and use \usepackage{pdfsync} in preamble for pdf output... Yes. "Activate Reverse Search" (however, the pdf reverse search is currently only implemented in very few PDF viewers, at least the newer pdfsync approach). Jürgen