I've fixed the sample applescripts on the Wiki that revert to deal with
aliases and symlinks in the path.
Christiaan
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Christiaan Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> You didn't tell me that you were using this script, you only talked about
> Skim's reloading.
>
> If that's the script you're using that could explain it, because Apple's
> documents automatically resolve symlinks (as you can see by cmd-clicking the
> proxy icon), and you probably pass the unresolved path to the script. I
> think you can fix that by resolving the AppleScript variable "theFile" as
> well by adding a line like:
>
> set theFile to POSIX path of (POSIX file theFile as alias)
>
> Christiaan
>
>
> On 14 Aug 2008, at 1:51 PM, Konrad Hofbauer wrote:
>
> Christian,
>>
>> I can reproduce the symlink-issue outside LyX.
>>
>> I don't know AppleScript well enough, but could it be that the reload
>> script of the Wiki with
>> -e "set theDocs to get documents whose path is theFile" \
>> -e "if (count of theDocs) > 0 then revert theDocs" \
>> uses the wrong path (sym-linked vs. real path) to select the file?
>>
>> If I run twice the (now really) attached script in /private/tmp (with the
>> pdf file in there, too) it reloads. If I run it in /tmp (which is a symlink)
>> it does not work/reload.
>>
>> Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>>
>>> About loading twice, I guess that LyX is actually running tex twice.
>>>
>>
>> You are (probably) right. I can reproduce the "Unable to load file" error
>> described before on Terminal without LyX with a simple
>> "pdflatex ths_master; pdflatex ths_master"
>>
>> There is no way for Skim to know about this and it will almost certainly
>>> lead to problems for reloading. Skim does everything possible that it can
>>> to make sure that the file is completed before it reloads, there's
>>> absolutely nothing more that it can do. If tex is run twice, the only way
>>> to do that properly is for the process that runs tex to reload the file in
>>> Skim.
>>>
>>
>> Makes sense. I guess Skim tries to reload the file after the first latex
>> run while the file is rewritten by the second latex run.
>>
>> At the point when Skim comes up with the "Unable to load file." error (or
>> before or after), could Skim not try to re-read the file again?
>> But enough. I am sure you have spent some thought on this already and know
>> what you do.
>>
>> Anyhow: It was a tiny little feature (Book Mode) that initially brought me
>> to Skim (something that both TeXShop and Preview can't do), but now I really
>> like everything else I see. :-)
>>
>> /Konrad
>>
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