On Oct 31, 2006, at 4:16 PM, Bennett Helm wrote:
On Oct 31, 2006, at 7:07 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I don't know if this helps anything. Let me know if I can do
something else to help out or help figure out how to get dvi viewing
working under LyX on macs. Because it is definitely faster than pdf
viewing on Windows and Linux (and since this is a five year old
iBook, pdf viewing can take a long time).
Please, try the following. Open Tools->Preferences, go to "File
formats"
and then select "DVI". Most probably you have "auto" in the
"Viewer:" entry.
Try changing that to "open" (without quotes), click on Modify and
then Apply.
Are now you able to View->DVI from LyX?
I don't have a Mac, but I have heard that there is a problem with the
autoview feature on OSX. I can't give you details, but I think
that for
"auto" to work you need to take some actions such as explicitly
telling
the OS to use a given application for viewing a dvi file. The open
command
should work OOTB, though.
"open" only works for applications that use the Mac GUI -- not
including X11 apps. So this solution won't work for xdvi. It will
work if an application such as TeXShop has been defined as the
default .dvi viewer (but then "auto" should work in that case as
well).
(See my recent e-mail for getting xdvi to work on Mac.)
Bennett's solution works fine. If you want to get xdvi to
interoperate even more with Mac OS X, you could use XDroplets - I
actually use xdvi as an example for the use of XDroplets at the
bottom of my page
http://www.uoregon.edu/~noeckel/TigerG4G5Setup.html
That way, you can even drag and drop onto the xdvi icon. And you
could use "open -a" with the Xdvi.app that is created by XDroplets.
Jens
