----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: Automatic view DVI file after update DVI
On 7/19/05, Stephen P. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>Systematically, when I update the DVI file, I want to view the DVI
>>>file. So, it would be nice to be possible to configure LyX so that
>>>clicking on Update --> DVI led automatically to the DVI viewer. Can it
>>>be done with LyX 1.3.6?
>
> Running Update->DVI assumes that a viewer is already open from a
> previous
> View->DVI, and
> the viewer should update automagically upon completion of the LyX
> compilations (xdvik).
>
> Update->PS works alike with ghostview and gv (File->Reopen)
>
> Update->PDF works alike with gv (File->Reopen), with xpdf (typing R for
> Reopen in the xpdf window)
> but you must close/open with acroread (5.0/Solaris here).
I saw this batfile which could become a bash script, maybe helpful?
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXWinTips
View PDF in full-page mode - advanced version
Thanks, Stephen, but I use Linux and not MS Windows.
Paul
You are welcome, Paul. Most MS Windows functionality is
availabe to Linux or Solaris so I was suggesting that an sh
script could probably manage to fulfill the function of the
cmd file which could serve as a basis for writing the *nix
version of the script. I think automatically starting a dvi
viewer is in the same comfort zone as not having to close
then open a pdf file with acroread; IOW, analagous, but
more on topic to the Solaris-based reply to the OP. A bit
off topic: I find that when I View a file with Postscript using
Lyx, that I can see the file as a ghostscript image, but I can't
save it. I have to navigate all the way to c:\documents and settings\
Stephen\local settings\Temp\lyx_tempdir3864a03064\lyx_tmpbuf0
copy it, and then save it to a safe place. Whew! That is more work
than moving a couch! Surely you can agree that fixing this should
have a fix level of higher priority than a piffling inconvenience? Alas,
Viewing with acrobat used to function and then I could save it as .ps.
Regards,
Stephen
Laziness breeds not only material poverty but intellectual impoverishment.
Hard work saves us from the threat of "those who do not work do not eat".
