On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:29:50PM -0400, Ronald Florence wrote: > Chris Menzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Go to LyX -> Preferences -> File formats; click on "Postscript" in the > > File formats window, and in the Viewer field enter "gv -watch" (no > > quotes, of course). With the -watch flag set, gv will check every > > second to see if the .ps file it is rendering has changed, and will > > refresh if so. > > MacDviX also updates automatically.
Not quite in the same sense -- you have to change the focus to MacDviX with either a mouse gesture or Cmd-Tab to get it to refresh; gv does it in the background and so doesn't require you to leave your editing session to see the update. In my psychology that is a very big difference; I resent having to change focus to see the result of my changes. I also find MacDviX to be rather slow on my 867MhZ PowerBook, whereas gv snaps the newly rendered page onto the screen. The tradeoff here is that MacDviX's rendering is superior to gv's. Nice thing is, since they manipulate different file types, you can configure LyX for both of them and take your pick as the spirit moves. -chris
