On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Enrico Forestieri <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 02:52:13PM -0400, BH wrote:
>
>> I'm delighted to see work being done on forward search. I wonder,
>> though, how to get it working for Mac.
>>
>> Currently, the Navigate > Forward Search menu item is greyed-out for
>> me, I assume because LyX doesn't know about any Mac .pdf viewers.
>>
>> The .pdf viewer I'm most familiar with is Skim.app, which says the
>> following command needs to be called to get forward search:
>>
>> /Applications/Skim.app/Contents/SharedSupport/displayline %line
>> "%pdffile" "%texfile"
>>
>> Is there anything I can do to set this up? (Or am I prematurely
>> jumping the gun on a feature that's not finished yet?)
>
> You should write the above command in the preferences as the
> "PDF command", replacing %line with $$n, %pdffile with $$o, and
> %texfile with $$t. Then forward search should work.

Ah -- I had missed where that was in the preferences. It works fine now.

Thanks!

BH

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