On 8/30/22 11:28, sovhist wrote:
On rgp 30 2022, at 6:15 pm, Paul A. Rubin <parubi...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/30/22 06:33, Daniel wrote:
On 2022-08-30 01:28, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
On 8/29/22 17:48, Christopher Menzel wrote:
Yo, works like a charm! I gave “pdf6” a try (can’t remember what my
justification was!) but didn’t try “7”! Is this documented
somewhere? And what determines the relevant number after “pdf”?
Thanks!!
-c
On 29 Aug 2022, at 4:44 PM, Paul A. Rubin <parubi...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/29/22 17:28, Christopher Menzel wrote:
Howdy LyX folk,
Simple question. When I’m working on my laptop (or frankly
anything short of a 27” monitor) I display my documents use PDF
(cropped) to strip away unneeded marginal whitespace. Is there a
way to set up a keyboard shortcut to update my cropped PDFs?
Something that will trigger the action I get by selecting “Update
PDF (cropped)” from the little “recycle” icon? The only shortcut
function that seems to work for updating is “pdf2” and that
produces a full-size PDF. I’ve looked through all the
documentation I could find and did a bunch of googling but to no
avail.
Thanks.
Chris Menzel
You can bind a key combo to "buffer-update pdf7". If you want
another shortcut for generating the initial cropped PDF file, bind
that one to "buffer-view pdf7". If that doesn't work, go to Tools
Preferences... > File Handling > File Formats, selected "PDF
(cropped)" in the "Format:" drop-down list, and make sure the
"Short name:" field on your system reads "pdf7".
Paul
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The "buffer-update" command is documented in the "LyX Functions"
manual (available from the Help menu). As to the "7", it's just an
ordinal. I suspect the short names were assigned in the order that
formats were added to LyX. So in the beginning there was ps2pdf
("pdf'),, then pdflatex ("pdf2") and dvipdfm ("pdf3"), etc. Although
I can't rule out the possible involvement of a random number generator.
Paul
I guess the "buffer-update" command is a little under-documented. It
is a bit unclear what exactly "one of the formats defined (in the
current GUI) in the Tools>Preferences>File Formats dialog" means. I
have no idea what "the current GUI" has to do with it. Rather it
seems
to be whatever is under "Short name" (which itself isn't very clear).
Also, it is "Tools>Preferences*>File Handling*>File Formats" these
days (which itself is not a dialog).
Daniel
I agree with the "under-documented" characterization. When answering
the
question, I figured out that the likely name for the command was
"buffer-update" (mainly based on past spelunking for other things in
the
"LyX Functions" manual). After reading the entry, my instinct was to
try
"buffer-update PDF (cropped)" and then "buffer-update 'PDF
(cropped)'",
neither of which worked. Looking at the file formats entry for "PDF
(cropped)", I happened to notice the short name and gave that a
(successful) try. Specifically mentioning the short name in the
documentation would be an improvement.
Paul
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Hello.
There is much quicker way to find names of the commands than to search
the documentation. You can open Messages pane (View – Messages pane) and
do whatever action you want. The name of the command of that action will
be written in the pane and after that you can create shortcut for it. It
is my usual way in creating shortcuts.
Best regards,
Valdemaras
Thanks for the tip. I had tried opening the command buffer and looking
there (which did not work) rather than the Messages pane.
Paul
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