Georg Baum wrote:
It should be "ps2pdf".Thanks for this info. I asked because this menu is broken in LyXWin 1.3.5. I ran LyX in debug mode but couldn't find out what happens.
What is broken in that menu?
I get no pdf output, also not in the temp directory (only the .ps-file is correctly created in the temp dir). But I discovered it now. I get:
This is dvips(k) 5.94b Copyright 2004 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2005.01.13:0139' -> newfile1.ps
<tex.pro><texps.pro><special.pro><color.pro>. <cmr12.pfb>[1]
Unrecoverable error: typecheck in .putdeviceprops
in LyX's debug mode window.
I don't understand this, becauses doing it manually works without problems. How invokes LyX the three programs,latex, dvips, and ps2pdf, in this case or which LyX-script is used when invoking the menu Export->PDF?
defskip is simply another level of indirection: You can redefine it to something else than medskip. This is for example useful if you are not
yet sure how big your default skip will be.
In this case the user should choose a customized length (\vspace) as offered by LyX's dialog.
Defining an own skip doesn't make much sense, because \medskip etc. are defined concerning the font size (to be correct concerning the \baselineskip, which is calculated concerning the font size). So the skip changes on changing the \baselineskip or when switching to another font size. But when using defskip the skip is constant and therefore the output might be ugly. There is also another problem with defskip: as the text is fitted to the page by LaTeX, a skip might have different length in the output (only \vspace is constant).
(for information: \smallskip = 0.25\baselineskip \nedskip = 0.5\baselineskip \bigskip = \baselineskip \baselineskip ~ 1.2\fontsize)
Unfortunately only xforms users can do that from the GUI, qt users need to edit the .lyx file by hand :-(
Then the QT-Frontend shouldn't offer defskips.
thanks and regards Uwe
