Re: LYX, KDVI and inverse search. Feature request.

2001-09-15 Thread John Levon
On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 05:52:30PM +0200, Stefan Kebekus wrote: > Thus, the only thing to modify in Lyx would be the following: > > 2.1) Add an option "Preview in KDVI" we don't need an extra option, we can insert these specials when the user chooses "View DVI" and we find dvi viewer is set to

Re: LYX, KDVI and inverse search. Feature request.

2001-09-15 Thread Stefan Kebekus
Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 11:32:30AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > 1/ it is useless, since it is not will not be possible for an xdvi > > running on an exported latex file to do anything > > There are people using LaTeX with regular editors... > > > 2/ it is tasteles

Re: LYX, KDVI and inverse search. Feature request.

2001-09-14 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 12:11:22PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > A much more robust method of inserting source specials is to use \TeX\ > > (the program) instead of a macro solution. Some \TeX\ implementations, > > such as Mik\TeX\footnote{from v.1.20 upwards; the command line option > > is `\f

Re: LYX, KDVI and inverse search. Feature request.

2001-09-14 Thread Dekel Tsur
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 11:08:26AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > 2. Lyx already supports (partially) backward search: > > 3. Lyx doesn't support forward search, but it shouldn't be hard to add this > > feature. > > Do you mean by forward search and backward search the same thing I mean? No. >

Re: LYX, KDVI and inverse search. Feature request.

2001-09-14 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 11:32:30AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > 1/ it is useless, since it is not will not be possible for an xdvi > running on an exported latex file to do anything There are people using LaTeX with regular editors... > 2/ it is tasteless to have such useless code in ou

Re: LYX, KDVI and inverse search. Feature request.

2001-09-14 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 11:12:10AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Yes, as long as it is done only for "non-nice" files (i.e. when we > actually plan to run latex). What's the penalty otherwise? One more line in the nice .tex and bigger .dvi produced from there? Andre' -- André Pönitz ...

Re: LYX, KDVI and inverse search. Feature request.

2001-09-14 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 10:26:58PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote: > 1. LyX doesn't need to generate the src specials. > The srcltx package (from CTAN) can be used for that > We can make lyx always insert > \IfFileExists{srcltx.sty}{\usepackge{srcltx}}{} > to the preamble. Cool. Could we do that then?

Re: LYX, KDVI and inverse search. Feature request.

2001-09-11 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 12:36:08PM +0200, Stefan Kebekus wrote: > development version of kdvi (to be found on the KDE CVS) scans a > dvi-file for specials of the type "src:". If these this sounds like a nice feature. However, we're all currently fire-fighting bugs for a 1.2.0 release, so we are

LYX, KDVI and inverse search. Feature request.

2001-09-11 Thread Stefan Kebekus
Dear Lyx developers, I have recently added an inverse search option to the kdvi program, and I would like to ask you to support that feature in Lyx. The current development version of kdvi (to be found on the KDE CVS) scans a dvi-file for specials of the type "src:". If these specials are found,