[PATCH] Only enable forward search if synctex is enabled

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 06:57:19PM +0200, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 11:44:58AM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> > Good to know. I'm curious, what is your use case for wanting to use it with
> > some documents and not others? In order to (potentially) design an interface,
> > I want to understand how people use it.
> 
> I use it only with few documents -- 3rd party texts which need quick 
> proofreading for typos but are too long for paper print (or not worth
> of paper altogether).

I see. I'm not sure how to proceed on this. I propose a hypothetical that might help:

Suppose that I ask on lyx-users and the results show that most people on lyx-users who use synctex prefer to have a way to enable it globally (i.e., in preferences). Would we then consider to add a preference if a proposal for an interface is intuitive? If not, then it seems there's point in asking on lyx-users in the first place.

I don't have a strong opinion on this. Enrico's approach of manually adding it to the converter commands is not a difficult workaround for users to implement. I feel we can make a smoother experience for users, but if others disagree I'm fine to drop this.

Scott
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