On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 3:11 PM, Stephan Witt <st.w...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Am 14.03.2018 um 21:54 schrieb list_em...@icloud.com: > > > > > >> On Mar 14, 2018, at 6:17 AM, Joel Kulesza <jkule...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 4:00 AM, <list_em...@icloud.com> wrote: > >>> I’m confused. Is it working for you or not? > >> > >> It does not work insofar as nothing happens other than Skim opening > with the PDF when I click the preview eyeballs. It doesn't move the > document to a particular point nor display the type of markup you described. > >> > >> I'll respond later in detail to Stephan's post regarding what I did to > set it up and what I ultimately experience (in both 2.2.3 and 2.3.0). > >> > > > > OK. I have egg on my face. (I don’t know if that translates into your > slang. 8^) First, I was not receiving all the list mail, only yours. I just > now fixed my list subscription. Second and more important, as told in > Stephan’s note, I did not have the document setting for “Synchronize with > output” turned on. > > To be honest - it was Pavel who mentioned it first. I’ve luckily repeated > this to make a self contained recipe. :) > > > I guess I didn’t realize that setting was per-document. SORRY everyone. > With that turned on, syncing is working. The only problem that I see is > that with reverse search, the Skim document window is not brought to the > front—but the scrolling and highlighting does happen. Not sure that’s a LyX > problem though—could be the OS or Skim not sending the right (Applescipt?) > command. > > You want LyX front-most when doing the Command-Shift click in Skim? I > think this may be a legal enhancement request for LyX. > > The work-around is to add custom arguments in Skim (I’ve grabbed it from > LyX wiki): > > For standard LyX enter: > "%file" %line ; /usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application "LyX" to activate' > > For custom command e.g.: > /path/to/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyxeditor "%file" %line ; > /usr/bin/osascript -e 'tell application "LyX" to activate‘ > > Stephan > > > Still, though, I first tested with the default document when selecting > File -> New which is “Article (Standard Class)” and the “Synchronize with > output” setting is already checked, by default. My mistake then I suppose > was assuming that this would then happen with the IEEE template but that is > a bad assumption. > > > > Sorry again for the hassle and thanks as usual for all the friendly help. > > > > Jerry > > > My experiences and thoughts after experimenting with this: - I've tried to configure forward/reverse search with LyX+Skim (LyX installed from lyx.org and Skim installed via brew cask install) on two separate machines using 2.3.0rc2. I've gotten only reverse searching working. I do not have anything that indicates that forward searching is functional. Can someone please post a screencast showing what correct forward search looks like so I know what to look for? - On one machine that reverse search works, both LyX and Skim are installed to /Applications. On the other, they are installed to /local. For the /local installations, I had to use a custom Skim preference providing the full path to lyxeditor and the osascript append that Stephan copied from the wiki to get reverse search working. - Jerry noted that he overlooked the fact that PDF synchronization is per document. I admit that I also overlooked this for some time. One possible reason: I think the WIki page at https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/SyncTeX has this step mislabeled. It says " Document > Settings > Output", which I mistook for LyX>Preferences>Output rather than Document>Settings>Formats. If folks agree that the Wiki is mislabeled, I can correct this. However, perhaps someone with working forward and reverse searching can create a formulaic write-up giving the steps necessary to setup LyX from a fresh install and a document without synchronization enabled. It would be helpful (to me, at least) if the write-up gave absolute paths/caveats for non-standard LyX and Skim (or other viewer) locations. The steps I used to configure the two applications are as follows (note that I totally removed LyX 2.3.0rc2 and Skim.app and the associated preferences (~/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.3 and ~/Library/Preferences/net.sourceforge.skim-app*) before proceeding. Please let me know what step is incorrect or missing to get synchronization / forward search working. 1. Install LyX 2.3.0rc2 from UCSD mirror ( ftp://ftp.ucsd.edu/LyX/devel/lyx-2.3/lyx-2.3.0rc2/LyX-2.3.0rc2+qt5-x86_64-cocoa.dmg) to /Applications/LyX.app. Note that I ultimately want to *not* have LyX in /Applications because I cannot have it so at my office. 2. Install Skim via `brew cask install skim` to /Applications/Skim.app (version 1.4.32 installed). Note that I ultimately want to *not* have Skim in /Applications because I cannot have it so at my office. 3. Launch LyX for the first time to initiate first-time configure. Quit. 4. Launch LyX and create a lengthy document. I used the attached, with 10 sections each with 5 loren ipsum paragraphs explicitly included in each section. 5. Set LyX>Preferences>Output>General>PDF Command to "/Applications/Skim.app/Contents/SharedSupport/displayline $$n $$o $$t" (default for Skim). Apply. 6. Set LyX>Preferences>File Handling>File Formats>Format: PDF (pdflatex) Viewer> Custom with "open -a Skim.app $$i". Apply. Save. 7. Set Document>Settings>Formats>Synchronize with output>Checked. OK. Save document. 8. Preview with eyeballs. Skim opens with the document at the beginning. 9. Set Skim>Preferences>Sync>Preset: LyX. Close preferences with red circle/"x" (there is no save, apply, etc.). 10. Quit LyX and Skim. 11. Relaunch LyX, reopen skim_test.lyx, preview with eyeballs. Skim opens it at the beginning of the document regardless of where my cursor in LyX is. However, reverse search (command-shift-click seeks LyX to the clicked element, within reason). Any thoughts are appreciated. I've worked for some time without this capability, but I can certainly appreciate how it would be helpful. Thanks, Joel
