On Saturday 23 April 2011 11:20:09 Hal Kierstead wrote: > While working on a LyX document it would be nice to be able to quickly see > the the pdf view, just as one can when working on a tex document. The > problem I have is that to view changes I must close the current view > reopen it and then navigate to the the current position, and maybe even > reposition the window. Is there a more automated way to do this? > > Thanks, > > Hal
Hi Hal, Here's what I do on my Linux LyX setup. Whenever I want to see exactly how it looks, I press Ctrl+D and it compiles up a new .dvi file and puts the .dvi file in a .dvi viewer. Elapsed time, about a five seconds for a 110,000 word book, on an Intel Core2 Duo @ 2.53GHz with 4GB RAM -- in other words, a 2 year old box using Ubuntu and LyX 1.6.5. No need to exit out of anything. Just press Ctrl+D and 5 seconds later this 110,000 word doc pops up in a viewer. This is a 350 page document: For a 20 page doc it would probably be a fraction of a second. The layout and look of a .dvi file is almost identical to that of a PDF. As a matter of fact, many PDFs are made by dvi to ps to pdf. On my machine, going to PDF that way takes 23 seconds rather than the 5 of going to dvi. HTH StevET Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
