On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 09:08:36AM -0500, Bennett Helm wrote: > On Nov 1, 2006, at 9:03 AM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 11:00:31PM -0500, Bennett Helm wrote: > > > >> On Oct 31, 2006, at 9:27 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > >> > >>> Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> > >>>> "open" only works for applications that use the Mac GUI -- not > >>>> including X11 apps. So this solution won't work for xdvi. It will > >>>> work if an application such as TeXShop has been defined as the > >>>> default .dvi viewer (but then "auto" should work in that case as > >>>> well). > >>> > >>> Bennet, > >>> > >>> in the forthcoming 1.4.4 the autoview feature can be overridden > >>> through > >>> lyxrc.dist, where an appropriate viewer can be defined. So, maybe > >>> the > >>> problem of a dvi viewer on Mac has a solution. > >> > >> But the question is what to set it to. Some people like Mac native > >> apps (for which "open" would seem to be the best solution), whereas > >> others like xdvi in X11 (requiring something else). As far as I know, > >> there's no way of determining this preference automatically unless we > >> assume the user will have a Mac native app. > > > > I have never used a Mac (well, I tried it through an emulator on the > > Amiga some years ago, when it was still using an MC68040, but I fear > > this doesn't count) so I cannot be of help here. > > > > BUT: if you click on a dvi file in the GUI, does it get opened in > > some app? If the answer is yes, then there must be a way to get this > > info and use it with the autoview feature in LyX, don't you think so? > > This works only with native apps -- not X11 apps (at least not > without trickery of the sort Jens described with XDroplets). Again, > in that case "open" will work (and works better than "auto"). > > My inclination is to set "open" as the default, letting those who > know how to use X11 set their LyX preferences accordingly.
This one seems a sensible thing to do, and starting from 1.4.4 it can be done through lyxrc.dist. -- Enrico
