On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Michael Wojcik wrote:
.ps-files... Personally, I think it'd be nice to be able to rpint
directly from LyX.
Out of curiosity, why?
Different work flows I guess... I was writing a bit of math, more or less
doing the derivations inside LyX. Now and then I want a hard copy to work
on and proof read. In this case the document was purely for internal use,
and I _know_ don't have to worry about checking it's appearance. Only the
content mattered, so I never bothered with viewiers. Why should I? Even if
the LyX screen doesn't show it exactly correct, it's still WYSIWYM, which
was very good in this case. However, I did need the hard copy as I'm
often more creative with plain pen and paper - as are most people I
suspect!
The question as I see it is if it's worth spending time trying to fix
bugs in LyX that are related to printing. (And that are probably
specific to the GNU/Linux distribution etc)
The worst one isn't: File > Print simply doesn't make sense, and that's true
on all platforms. The design is broken. LyX supports multiple back ends, and
as long as that's true, File > Print is at best ambiguous. At worst, it's
simply broken, for example if I have pdflatex-specific packages or commands
in my document (in the preamble or in ERT).
At the very least, the menu item should be named something like "Print
(Postscript)" or "Print (dvips)". An unqualified "Print" menu action isn't
meaningful for LyX.
I'm inclined to agree with you... the drawback would be confusion for
people that are used to other systems. If someone else thinks it's a good
idea, I'll move this discussion to the developers' list and possibly make
a bugzilla entry out of it.
Regards,
/christian
PS. I saw that Helge had some tips on getting printing to work, I'll look
at that later.
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
