commit e9915397590533effd70024db922057ff3cdb6c7
Author: Pavel Sanda <[email protected]>
Date: Thu Feb 20 00:27:00 2014 -0800
Forward search: add Enrico's comment from uses list.
diff --git a/lib/doc/Additional.lyx b/lib/doc/Additional.lyx
index 8aa0e5a..59a31d1 100644
--- a/lib/doc/Additional.lyx
+++ b/lib/doc/Additional.lyx
@@ -6077,7 +6077,26 @@ scr-specials
\emph default
approach.
You need at least TeXLive 2008 or a recent MikTeX distribution in order
- to use it.
+ to use it
+\begin_inset Foot
+status collapsed
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+For some reason, MikTeX does not understand/obey the command LyX inserts
+ into the preamble when you check the "Enable Forward/Reverse Search" button
+ in the toolbar and does not generate the necessary info.
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+The generation of the required info can be forced by changing the converter
+ "LaTeX (pdflatex) -> PDF (pdflatex)" in Preferences->File handling->Converters
+ from the default "pdflatex $$i" to "pdflatex -synctex=1 $$i" (i.e., by adding
+ the -synctex=1 switch).
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+.
Also note that only a few PDF viewers (Skim on the Mac, SumatraPDF on Windows)
already provide SyncTeX support.
\end_layout
