On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 11:38:14AM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote: > Hartmut Haase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > what does "PATH prefix:|#T" mean, and when/where ist it used? > > LyX users the PATH environment variable to find external apps that it uses for > various things. If you have some tool that you'd like LyX to use but it isn't > in > the PATH, the the string you add here will be prepended to the PATH > environment > variable so that LyX can find your tool. > > The string should be input in native format: > "C:\Program Files\ImageMagick 6.x;C:\Python24" > on Windows > "/usr/opt/bin:/usr/local/bin" > on *nix (probably not needed on *nix). Note that in 1.5 the autoview feature on Windows obsoletes path_prefix. It is only useful when you define in preferences a viewer living in a path with spaces, due to a bug in LyX. In this case you put the path to the program in path_prefix and specify the program without a path in preferences. If also the program name has spaces, then you lose :( IMHO, when the aforementioned bug is corrected, path_prefix could go. -- Enrico
