> Ummm, well, I thought it was worth asking. > Maybe if you ran the conversion in a separate thread and if there's a > currently converting process going on, kill that and start again. It > might suck up a couple of cycles but the user may not notice it anyway. >
You can do this by yourself easily by writing a shell script that runs things like 'lyx --export pdf2', 'acroread xxx.pdf'. You can run this script manually or let it repeat itself at certain interval (use for loop and sleep). As a matter of fact, I did exactly what you described recently when I need to prepare a latex/beamer presentation. In this case, frequent preview is a must (for the position of figures etc) but latex runs slowly so previewing in lyx becomes a pain (lyx will freeze during pdflatex-ing). BTW, two questions: 1. Can view->dvi/pdf etc be put into background so lyx will not freeze during latex-ing? 2. Can I define a keyboard shortcut to run whatever shell script I specify? If this can be done, question 1 is no longer a problem. Bo
