I've just submitted my workings on the preview code to CVS. Attached is a screen shot of what you can now expect. As you can see, I've just about resolved the positioning of the preview on the screen. There may be an off-by-one problem.
To get the equivalent of this image yourself, you should add the following to
your preferences file.
\preview true
\set_color "preview" "#0000df"
\format "lyxpreview" "lyxpreview" "LyX preview" ""
\converter "lyxpreview" "ppm" "sh LYXSRC/lib/scripts/lyxpreview2ppm.sh" ""
where LYXSRC is ...
You'll also need to grab a copy of preview-latex. I grabbed the most recent
stable version, preview-latex-0.7.2b.tar.gz from
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/preview-latex
Actually, you'll need just the preview.sty .def and .cfg files that are
generated by
tar xvzf preview-latex-0.7.2b.tar.gz
cd preview-latex-0.7.2b/latex
follow the instructions in README-preview
Don't forget to install them someplace LaTeX can find them and remember to
run texhash or equivalent.
I have not yet addressed the fact that the size of the screenshot fonts is
different to those used by LyX. If you really don't like this, you can always
modify lyxpreview2ppm.sh, hard-coding the RESOLUTION parameter rather than
letting lyX set it.
- RESOLUTION=$2
+ RESOLUTION=124
will give you similar-sized previews to those in the attached image.
Incidentally, if you load a document with LOTS of equations, don't expect to
see anything soon. We only load the images into LyX once gs has finished
generating ALL the bitmap files.
I've just tried with a Thesis containing 617 equations. It took gs about 5
mins to do the work. Thereafter LyX freezes until all these images are loaded
up into memory.
I think we'll have to do something about that. Presumably the elegant
solution of loading an image file as it is created might aleviate this
problem somewhat.
Have fun and a good weekend,
Angus
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