Alon Altman wrote: > Hi, > I've heard about the instant preview feature for equations, but I > don't > know how to activate it. What should I do?
1. Run LyX from the command line so that you can see what messages it spits out. 2. Open up the Preferences dialog (Exit menu, Preferences item). 3. If you're using the Qt frontend, go to the Look&Feel->Graphics pane. If you're using the xforms frontend, go to the Look&Feel->Misc tab. 4. Select the Instant Preview checkbox. 5. Press the 'Apply' button if you want to try out Instant Preview this session only. Press the 'Save' button if you want to use it in future sessions. 6. Start a new document. 7. Create a new math inset "a+b=c" and leave the inset so that you are no longer editing it. LyX should start the process of generating the preview and if all is successful will display this preview once it is generated. If it fails, then you should be able to find the latex file that it failed to generate the bitmap image from in the temp directory. The console messages should tell you exactly where. Don't forget that you'll need to have the preview-latex package installed... -- Angus
