On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Kelly Kearney <[email protected]>wrote:
> > So far, I haven't been able to figure out how to run Mac Lyx from the > command > line. Any pointers? > > > > Sure. In OS X, applications appear to the GUI as a single object but are actually special folders. You can examine their contents in the Finder by right-clicking on the app and choosing 'Show Package Contents'. Working from the terminal, and assuming you installed Lyx in the Applications folder, the path to the executable is: /Applications/Lyx.app/Contents/MacOS/Lyx The path to the man pages directory is: /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/man/man1 On my machine, rather than adding that path to my MANPATH, I copied the man pages to /usr/local/share/man/man1, but you have to become root to do that. Two utilities I find useful when doing this sort of work in OS X: Bwana allows you to view man pages in your web browser. http://www.bruji.com/bwana/ Add a button to your Finder toolbar to open a terminal window & change directory to your current Finder location: http://maururu.net/2007/enhanced-open-terminal-here-for-leopard/ -- Rich
