Reverse DVI search (Was: Easing the editing/correction of LyX..)
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Peter Bowyer wrote: Hi, I am one of the people who cannot finds editing documents hard on screen - I end up printing a copy and then working through it with a pen, making changes and restructuring, and then typing the changes up. Me too... I've always wondered if a tablet computer would help here. snip Now I know that people have been writing documents this way for much longer than word processors have been around, (think of raw TeX) which suggests it's a problem with my approach. Do you have any tips or suggestions for making the editing process smoother? Have you tried the reverse search, or inverse search or something like that? I think there may now be a way to click inside a DVI and get LyX to position the cursor at the corresponding position in the document. Someone else should now if this is available now (and what it is actually called...) /Christian PS It seems availabale on Mac, look for reverse DVI search on this page http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnMac -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Reverse DVI search (Was: Easing the editing/correction of LyX..)
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Peter Bowyer wrote: Hi, I am one of the people who cannot finds editing documents hard on screen - I end up printing a copy and then working through it with a pen, making changes and restructuring, and then typing the changes up. Me too... I've always wondered if a tablet computer would help here. snip Now I know that people have been writing documents this way for much longer than word processors have been around, (think of raw TeX) which suggests it's a problem with my approach. Do you have any tips or suggestions for making the editing process smoother? Have you tried the reverse search, or inverse search or something like that? I think there may now be a way to click inside a DVI and get LyX to position the cursor at the corresponding position in the document. Someone else should now if this is available now (and what it is actually called...) /Christian PS It seems availabale on Mac, look for reverse DVI search on this page http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnMac -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Reverse DVI search (Was: Easing the editing/correction of LyX..)
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Peter Bowyer wrote: Hi, I am one of the people who cannot finds editing documents hard on screen - I end up printing a copy and then working through it with a pen, making changes and restructuring, and then typing the changes up. Me too... I've always wondered if a tablet computer would help here. Now I know that people have been writing documents this way for much longer than word processors have been around, (think of raw TeX) which suggests it's a problem with my approach. Do you have any tips or suggestions for making the editing process smoother? Have you tried the "reverse search", or "inverse search" or something like that? I think there may now be a way to click inside a DVI and get LyX to position the cursor at the corresponding position in the document. Someone else should now if this is available now (and what it is actually called...) /Christian PS It seems availabale on Mac, look for "reverse DVI search" on this page http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnMac -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
