Am 19.01.2014 um 18:21 schrieb Stephan Witt <st.w...@gmx.net>: > Am 19.01.2014 um 15:11 schrieb Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org>: > >> Hi Richard, >> >> On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Richard Talley <rich.tal...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> When I was running LyX 1.6.x, I had no problems getting LyX and Skim to >>> sync, but I can't get it working with LyX 2.0.6. >> >> Do you still have your user folder from back then? > > Hi, > > the user folder is a different one for LyX 1.6 and 2.0 on a mac. > > Sorry, I forgot to investigate this issue… > >> >>> No matter what I do, generated pdfs continue to open in Preview rather than >>> Skim. >> >> OK let's take this one step at a time. The first step is getting Skim >> to open the PDFs. >> >>> >>> LyX has the correct (according to the wiki) command built-in - open LyX >>> Preferences -> Output and in PDF command put >>> /Applications/Skim.app/Contents/SharedSupport/displayline $$n $$o $$t. >> >> This is only for Forward search, not for which program opens a PDF file. > > This already doesn't work for me either. > > 1. I'm previewing the LyX Tutorial. The Preview app is showing the pdf. > 2. After configuring it I used Navigate => Forward Search > 3. The message pane displays: > 18:06:36.201: (forward-search) > Running: /Applications/Skim.app/Contents/SharedSupport/displayline 423 > Tutorial.pdf Tutorial.tex > 4. Skim is opened and displays the title page of the pdf document. > > I think, LyX changes to the temp buffer and runs the mentioned command. > If I do the same in the terminal window the same happens and there is no > error. > I've verified the line 423 of the file Tutorial.tex and it's the correct one. > > So, I've no clue why that fails. Currently I have no chance to verify it with > LyX 1.6.
I've to correct myself. When using pdflatex and enabling "Synchronize with Output" it works for me. Skim is not used as default viewer but is opened and the page with the insertion point in LyX is shown when using forward search. Stephan
