Hi Richard, On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Richard Talley <rich.tal...@gmail.com> wrote: > When I was running LyX 1.6.x, I had no problems getting LyX and Skim to > sync, but I can't get it working with LyX 2.0.6.
Do you still have your user folder from back then? > No matter what I do, generated pdfs continue to open in Preview rather than > Skim. OK let's take this one step at a time. The first step is getting Skim to open the PDFs. > > LyX has the correct (according to the wiki) command built-in - open LyX > Preferences -> Output and in PDF command put > /Applications/Skim.app/Contents/SharedSupport/displayline $$n $$o $$t. This is only for Forward search, not for which program opens a PDF file. What about going to Tools > Preferences > File Handling > File Formats select, e.g. PDF (XeTeX) and under "viewer" select Skim or add it as custom. > I know I could force the pdfs to open in Skim by setting all pdfs to open in > Skim, but I neither want nor should have to do that. I thought this is what you want to do. Best, Scott
