On May 22, 2011, at 12:15 AM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Christopher Menzel writes: > >> Unfortunately, forward search is still not functioning, although I >> do see a small message at the bottom of the screen that reports >> "Couldn't proceed" when I invoke the Forward Search command, in case >> that's a clue; > > Yes, it is. Most probably, you don't defined a command for performing the > forward search. This depends on the viewer you use and you can find a > predefined list for some most used viewers in > Preferences->Output->General. > Pick the one for your viewer and you should be fine. If your viewer is > not listed, you will have to discover whether it supports forward search > and what command should be used.
Well, as I noted, I followed the instructions in the Additional Features document assiduously, so one of the first things I did was to choose the default command for the Yap previewer under Preferences->Output->General. The default setting -- yap -1 -s "$$n $$t" $$o -- leads to the "Couldn't proceed" message. And, although the MiKTeX bin directory is in my PATH, I have also tried using a fully qualified path to yap.exe and I still get the message in question. Any other possibilities you can think of? And, again, is there anything analogous to the Unix /var/log directory under Windows where I might be able to examine a log file for clues? Oh, also, can you (or anyone) tell me how to run LyX under Windows from the command line with debugging on? I figure that might yield a clue or two as well but I haven't been able to figure out how to do that; it doesn't seem to be a simple matter of calling the .exe file with the -dbg option. Chris Menzel
