Jan Peters wrote: >>>> so, finally the instant preview puts out equations --- but they >>>> are HUGE they >>>> hardly fit on my screen! >>>> >>>> Does anybody know how to fix that? >>> >>> I've never seen that. They shoul have the size of the surronding >>> text. >> >> Indeed. >> >> The size is tunable. Play with this in your preferences file: >> \preview_scale_factor 0.9 >> >> Nonetheless, nobody has ever had a problem with this before... > > Dear Angus, > > the default MAGNIFACTION has to be set to roughly 5550 instead > of 1000 and it works. Can it be that it is a problem with the > pnmcrop on my Mac? Since the bitmaps generated are huge --- and even > scale bad when the MAGNIFICATION is being used! > > Best, > -Jan
Shrug. Now you see why we try and make things configurable. The conversion process is entirely external to the LyX executable, governed solely by these entries in lyxrc.defaults: \Format lyxpreview lyxpreview "LyX Preview" "" \converter lyxpreview ppm "lyxpreview2bitmap.sh" "" You can change the converter and put the modified one in .lyx/scripts/lyxpreview2bitmap.sh. You can even change its name ;-) Returning to the particulars of your question. The magnification is ascertained by parsing the latex log file. # "Preview: Magnification 2074" # If no such line found, default to MAGNIFICATION=1000. Do you have such a line? Assuming that you do, you can tune its value by modifying the preferences variable \preview_scale_factor. No need to hack the script at all. -- Angus
