On Nov 1, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Sue Kientz wrote:
On Oct 31, 2006, at 4:23 PM, Jens Noeckel wrote:
Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I don't know if this helps anything. Let me know if I can do
something else to help out or help figure out how to get dvi
viewing
working under LyX on macs. Because it is definitely faster than
pdf
viewing on Windows and Linux (and since this is a five year old
iBook, pdf viewing can take a long time).
Please, try the following. Open Tools->Preferences, go to "File
formats"
and then select "DVI". Most probably you have "auto" in the
"Viewer:" entry.
Try changing that to "open" (without quotes), click on Modify
and then Apply.
Are now you able to View->DVI from LyX?
I don't have a Mac, but I have heard that there is a problem
with the
autoview feature on OSX. I can't give you details, but I think
that for
"auto" to work you need to take some actions such as explicitly
telling
the OS to use a given application for viewing a dvi file. The
open command
should work OOTB, though.
"open" only works for applications that use the Mac GUI -- not
including X11 apps. So this solution won't work for xdvi. It will
work if an application such as TeXShop has been defined as the
default .dvi viewer (but then "auto" should work in that case as
well).
I tried changing auto to open (it's not in Tools > Preferences on
the Mac, but rather Lyx > Preferences). I get a "cannot convert
file" error, "An error occurred whilst running dvipdfmx -p letter -
o 'foo.pdf' " (my document is foo..lyx). How do I define a default
dvi viewer in Lyx? Or is that something I define via the os?
Sue Kientz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you look, through the lists on this topic you should find an
answer. However, from what Bennett posted if you put:
open -a X11.app; export DISPLAY=:0.0; xdvi
into the LyX > Preferences and you have xdvi installed, it is
supposed to work. It works for Bennett but not for me (probably due
to some other program conflict, that I really don't care to resolve).
The problem is that there is no default dvi viewer for mac. So if you
have xdvi installed you have to call out X11. The default dvi viewers
are shareware that cost $20 or I've heard of one free one TeXshop
that is supposed to work if you install it and put "open" into the
preferences.
Bob Lounsbury
