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
