Christopher Reeve wrote:
Hi, I just got Skim to pdfsync with LyX. It took me a while, and I think my
problems were that I had defined my lyxpipe in ~/.lyx/.lyxpipe. Now I set it
just as ~/.lyx.
Last time I tried that, I've set in Skim the editor to custom and
/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyxeditor
with arguments
"%file" %line
Another problem I had was that LyX could not find the
pdfsync.sty package so I downloaded it and stuck it in my working folder. If
anyone can tell me what I should have done please say!
The right place for manually installed packages on the Mac is (assuming
you use MacTex or TeXLive):
~/Library/texmf/tex/latex/
You need to run texhash afterwards (from Terminal).
My question now is, I am writing a long document with many chapters so I
stick all the chapters into child documents which I include in a parent
document.
You were warned that RCx is not for real work, right? ;-)
If I compile the whole document then Command-Shift clicking in
Skim it will only relolcate the courser in the parent document in LyX - that
is if I am reading a middle chapter it does not work. Does anyone know if
there is a way to fix this?
No idea, but a general question:
Compared to the additional hassle the each-chapter-in-a-file approach
creates, do you really gain that much?
I am working on a >200p document right now as well (also with plenty of
math, figures, etc.), and there is no problem whatsoever (1.5.6). And it
is simple/quick to get around in the document, even with the basic
outliner of 1.5.x.. It needs some time getting used to actually use the
outliner, but then it is fast.
ps, I might formally add this as a feature request: It would be very nice to
be able to search within child documents from within the parent document
with Find.
Also being able to search for occurences label names - both when they are
defined and or when they are refered to. This would make debugging much
easier when LyX refuses to compile.
I believe it is generally known that the current Find/Replace is pretty
basic and that much could be improved (contributors welcome!). There is
some pretty hot stuff on its way though ...
Cheers,
/Konrad
