Stephen and Liviu wrote the excellent guide: "LyX Essentials" (sites.google.com/site/tsewiki/resources/latex/LyX_Essentials.pdf)
In it they write: "The View icon is practical for previewing your final output, but it is generally a good habit to use File ! Export ! PDF (pdflatex) to actually export your final PDF document." Why? Is this so that one has a permanent copy of the PDF in the relevant folder as opposed to just the PDF placed in the temporary folder? If that is the reason, then I would agree but often tend to forget to export my document every time I am done editing it. In fact I wish that I could somehow over-ride the "View" functionality so that the generated PDF is always placed in the same folder as the .lyx file --- possibly with the word "draft" appended to it. In that case I would always have a copy of every document in PDF form compiled to the latest version. This is useful for cases where (a) I want to read one of my document without opening LyX or (b) want to quickly send a document to someone quickly and don't want to have to compile it (just in case for one reason or another the compilation is broken). Can anyone suggest either: (1) how to over-ride the "View" function as described above, or (2) how to create a new icon which generates a PDF (appended with draft) which is saved in my working directory and automatically opened for viewing. Thanks, Ken
