On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Angus Leeming wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: > > > Alon Altman wrote: > > > >> On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Alex Olivas wrote: > >>> go to Edit->Preferences->Look & Feel->Graphics and there'll be an > >>> instant preview box you can click. > >>> alex. > >> > >> Wow! It works great (I had to install the preview-latex package > >> first). > >> One small problem I still have with this, is that the previews seem > >> too small compared to the surrounding text. It seems that the 120% > >> zoom I'm using for the screen fonts isn't applied to the previews. > >> Is there any way to fix this? Furthermore, could you point me to a > >> place in the manual (or somewhere else) where this feature is > >> discussed? > > > > Add a line > > \preview_scale_factor <your value> > > to your .lyx/preferences file. The default is 0.9. > > > > If this file doesn't exist then > > $ cat \preview_scale_factor 1.0 > .lyx/preferences file > > should do the trick. > > Ooops. I'm obviously asleep. Make that > > $ echo \preview_scale_factor 1.0 > .lyx/preferences
This is better in case the file .lyx/preferences already exists: echo \preview_scale_factor 1.0 >> .lyx/preferences (otherwise .lyx/preferences will only contain \preview...) I'll also paste this sequence of mail concering how to install instant preview into this page at the wiki-wiki site: http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/ManualInstantPreview /Christian -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr