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

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Christian Ridderström                           http://www.md.kth.se/~chr


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