Christopher Kan writes: > > Hello! > > I am running LyX 2.0.7 on a Windows x64, Jabref 2.9.2 and Zotero Standalone > 4.0.17 with the LyZ 2.1.7 plugin. > > I am having trouble with the LyXServer pipe settings. From what I have read > whatever directory I am set the path to should create a pipe file allowing > Jabref and Zotero to communicate with LyZ. I have set a path > "F:\\pipe\lyxserver" but it didn't create any files in the directory. I have > tried restarting the program and its still empty. I have set the same path in > Jabref and Zotero, neither have been able to communicate with LyZ. > > Does anyone have any suggestions to this issue?
Please, have a look at the Additional Features manual, sec. 5.2 (Starting the LyX Server). In essence, you can use a generic path on Windows but only a path that starts with \\.\pipe. Thus, either \\.\pipe\lyxserver or \\.\pipe\foo\bar will do. Note that \\.\pipe is a special object that does not correspond to any real directory, so you can't really check that any file is created. To see whether it worked, supposing you use \\.\pipe\lyxserver, then launch lyx and then open a cmd terminal. From the terminal issue the following command at the prompt: echo LYXCMD:test:file-open > \\.\pipe\lyxpipe.in After that, lyx should open a file dialog. If not, something went wrong. -- Enrico
