On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Nat Jacobs <njac...@ucsd.edu> wrote: > > Hello all, > I'm on a Mac. I'm trying to edit a lengthy thesis and I can't for the > life of me figure out how to get LyX to sync with Skim. That is, I > want to be able to view a pdf or dvi in Skim, and then > command-shift-click and be taken to the corresponding part of my LyX > file. Doesn't work. I've been spending hours looking for different > instructions on how to do this. I can't get it to work with either > PdfSync or SyncTeX. I put the pdfsync package in my latex preamble. I > set the file format in the preferences for LyX and I set the > preferences of Skim. I even tried carefully setting the command path > for PdfSync. When I was trying to use SyncTeX, I set teh converter. I > hope I'm just missing one extra step. Anyone able to get this work ? I > hope I'm just missing one simple step.
I believe Skim thinks that LyX will be in your /Applications folder. If you have LyX somewhere else, you'll need to enter the appropriate path in Skim's preferences -- something like this: /path/to/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyxeditor Is that the issue? BH
