Helge Hafting wrote:
- "color preferences" allow me to set the color of a great many things,
a few of which I didn't understand.
"previewed snippet": What exactly is that? Previewed math?
Previewed figures? Other?
Bitmaps that are generated using the LaTeX "preview.sty" package.
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/InstantPreview
Usually maths, but can be other things too. Anyway, the color choice allows
you to choose the color of the text.
- "paths preferences": What is the "PATH prefix" entry field for? A
lookup path for something?
LyX finds its helper tools (latex, gs, dvips, acroread etc) with the help
of the PATH environment variable. That's fine on *nix boxes but doesn't
work so well on Windows machines where things tend to advertise their
location using a Registry entry.
My lyxrc.defaults entry on Windows contains the line:
\path_prefix
"J:\MinSYS\bin;C:\Python24;C:\MiKTeX\Main\miktex\bin;C:\PROGRA~1\Perl\bin;c:\program
files\Ghostscript 8.33\gs8.33\bin;C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.2.3-Q16"
This string is prepended to the existing PATH environment variable so that
LyX can find various things.
- "Copiers preferences": What is this dialog for? Specification of
special programs used for copying certain files? Is this because some
> files need fixups when copied to a tempdir?
Exactly! Examples might be an XFig file that has a relative path reference
to a bitmap image.
Angus
