Dear LyX developers,
In an effort to convince a 55 souls strong medical writing department from
adopting LyX and LaTeX in favour of M$ Word, I recently started using LyX more
extensively than TeXnikCenter.
There is however one feature of TeXnikCenter that I am missing in LyX. Neither
have I seen it on the feature list of LyX 2.0 which is awaited here with much
anticipation. (Any approximate release date yet?)
TeXnikCenter has the ability to open a PDF at the last cursor position when
hitting the view PDF (pdflatex) button. It also does that with DVI output in
Yast if I am not mistaken. TeXnikCenter achieves this by sending extra command
line options. Below is shown how this is achieved.
Using Acrobat reader
TeXnicCenter has the ability to integrate nicely with Adobe Acrobat, such that
recently compiled PDF files are opened automatically, and existing open PDF
files are closed automatically upon recompilation. This is done using DDE calls
to Acrobat.
You can insert the following lines of command in TeXnicCenter to integrate it
with Acrobat. This particularly enables you to compile your files in pdf
without having to close the previous document first (necessary in the default
option). Integration is setup in the Build | Define Output Profiles menu
option. Select a profile "LaTeX=>PDF" or "LaTeX=>PS=>PDF", and click on the
viewer window :
view project's output: [v] DDE command.
command: [DocOpen("%bm.pdf")][FileOpen("%bm.pdf")]
server: acroview
topic: control
forward search: [v] DDE command.
command: [DocOpen("%bm.pdf")][FileOpen("%bm.pdf")]
server: acroview
topic: control
Close document before running (La)TeX: [v] DDE command
command: [DocClose("%bm.pdf")]
server: acroview
topic: control
Alternatively, the following command can be used for "forward search", which
opens the pdf-document on page +1:
forward search: [v] DDE command.
command: [DocOpen("%bm.pdf")][DocGoTo("%bm.pdf",)]
server: acroview
topic: control
If you want Acrobat to reopen the file after a recompilation at the same
location as it was just before, set:
view project's output: [v] DDE command.
command: [DocOpen("%bm.pdf")][FileOpen("%bm.pdf")][MenuitemExecute("GoBack")]
server: acroview
topic: control
forward search: [v] DDE command.
command: [DocOpen("%bm.pdf")][FileOpen("%bm.pdf")][MenuitemExecute("GoBack")]
server: acroview
topic: control
Close document before running (La)TeX: [v] DDE command
command: [DocClose("%bm.pdf")]
server: acroview
topic: control
It would be wonderful and convincingly reassuring to have this feature also in
Lyx.
Thanks in advance!
With kind regards,
Serge
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