On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:16:49 +0200 "Kosta Welke" <ko...@fillibach.de> wrote:
> Hi! > > I'm trying to use LyX together with Xetex and thanks to strangers on the > internet, it actually works. I updated the wiki under > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/XeTeX so that it might work for other people, too. > > There's one problem, though: As XeTeX must run through the xelatex, which is > a different lyx file format, the preview PDF button does not work anymore > (exporting using pdflatex gives an error, as you need to export using > xelatex). What is the best/quickest/working way to get the "preview/update > PDF" buttons to export using XeTeX instead of pdflatex? (optimally, this > would be a document setting). > > Thanks in advance for your help! > > Cheers, > Kosta > > It's a dirty hack that would work only if you always want to use xetex instead of pdflatex. You can go into preferences->converters->Latex(pdflatex) and change the converter from pdflatex to xetex
