On Nov 1, 2006, at 9:03 AM, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 11:00:31PM -0500, Bennett Helm wrote:
On Oct 31, 2006, at 9:27 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
"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).
Bennet,
in the forthcoming 1.4.4 the autoview feature can be overridden
through
lyxrc.dist, where an appropriate viewer can be defined. So, maybe
the
problem of a dvi viewer on Mac has a solution.
But the question is what to set it to. Some people like Mac native
apps (for which "open" would seem to be the best solution), whereas
others like xdvi in X11 (requiring something else). As far as I know,
there's no way of determining this preference automatically unless we
assume the user will have a Mac native app.
I have never used a Mac (well, I tried it through an emulator on the
Amiga some years ago, when it was still using an MC68040, but I fear
this doesn't count) so I cannot be of help here.
BUT: if you click on a dvi file in the GUI, does it get opened in
some app? If the answer is yes, then there must be a way to get this
info and use it with the autoview feature in LyX, don't you think so?
This works only with native apps -- not X11 apps (at least not
without trickery of the sort Jens described with XDroplets). Again,
in that case "open" will work (and works better than "auto").
My inclination is to set "open" as the default, letting those who
know how to use X11 set their LyX preferences accordingly.
Bennett
