I've had reverse/inverse search working on my standard version of lyx
for windows for a while without using cygwin. I've not noticed anyone
posting about how to do it or providing scripts so I thought I'd share
mine. I've written it up here http://www.thousandmonkeys.com/?p=96 but
here are the really important bits. Hope this gets it working for
someone.
Requirements:
* Python 2.6 (might work with other versions not tried it)
* win32api – Python extension (to find the short pathnames)
* SumatraPDF – This is the only appropriate windows pdf viewer I
am aware of. It prints badly though in my experience.
* ReverseSearch – The scripts defined below
Setup:
* Set the lyxserver pipe (under paths in the settings) to
“\\.\pipe\lyxserver”
* put “SumatraPDF.bat”, “search.py” and “SumatraPDF.exe” in “../lyx16/bin”
* Update the paths in “SumatraPDF.bat” to be correct for your
setup (mine is 64bit), use pythonw.exe to supress the console
* Set your in “PDF (pdflatex)” viewer field (in file formats) to:
SumatraPDF.bat
* Set the “Latex (pdflatex) -> PDF (pdflatex)” converter to
“pdflatex –synctex=-1 $$i”
SumatraPDF.bat
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start "SumatraPDF.exe" "SumatraPDF.exe" -inverse-search
"C:/Progra~1/Python26/pythonw.exe C:/Progra~2/lyx16/bin/search.py %%l
%%f" %1
exit
search.py
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# author Chris Lingwood
#
# This script (along with sumatra.bat) enables DVI/PDF search in
windows using Sumatra
import sys
import time
import os
import win32api
#Debug output to ensure the path name is picked up properly
print(sys.argv[1])
print(sys.argv[2:])
line = sys.argv[1]
filename = ' '.join(sys.argv[2:])
print(filename)
#We have to get the windows short filename to avoid having spaces
which upsets the command
filename = win32api.GetShortPathName(filename);
#create the command to be send to the lyx server pipe with an echo to
a windows pipe
command = "echo LYXCMD:revdvi:server-goto-file-row:"+filename+"
"+line+">> \\\\.\pipe\lyxserver.in"
#print it for debugging and send it to the os
print(command)
os.system(command)
#Uncomment the next line if there are problems, it lets you see the
debugging output (this is still supressed with pythonw.exe though)
#time.sleep(100)
I attempted to post this the to the list a while back but it never
made it for some reason. That version doesn't work with newer versions
of lyx (or so I'm told), hence the repost.
Chris Lingwood
