On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wednesday 09 January 2002 13:45, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > I recently found Lyx and must say that it's features look very > > promising.However, I find that when using the View menu, and selecting > > either PDF or Postscript, my system frequently locks.When this > > happens, both screens (I'm using Xinerama with a G400) blank to power > > saving and the system is utterly unresponsive.I've attempted remote > > connection to the system over the network during these lockups to no > > avail.The only recourse I've found is cut the power.Obviously this > > is highly undesirable. > > > > Any ideas? > > Hi Jamin, > > It's possible that the problem is the way LyX invokes gv. Try using a > separate script to view your output. I run the following script from outside > LyX to rebuild my book's table of contents, output it to postscript, and view > it. The book is utp.lyx.
A simpler solution: export to postscript. Use a postscript previewer which can "watch file" (gv when watch-file is ticked, siag's gv, ggv, etc.) and you won't have to re-run the gv command multiple times. > > ================================= > > #!/bin/sh > cd /home/slitt/data/books/utp > rm -f utp.ps > rm -f utp.aux > rm -f utp.dvi > rm -f utp.idx > rm -f utp.ilg > rm -f utp.ind > rm -f utp.log > rm -f utp.tex > rm -f utp.toc Can all be put in one rm -f command. But most (if not all) of them are unnecessary. > lyx --export latex utp.lyx > latex utp.tex > makeindex utp.idx > konqueror utp.ind utp.ilg What is that? Alternatively, you can locate the temporary directory in which lyx currently typesets the document, and rip the files from there. > lyx --export ps utp.lyx > gv utp.ps > cd - -- Tzafrir Cohen /"\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign Taub 229, 972-4-829-3942, X Against HTML Mail http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir / \
