Syncing skim with LyX

sovhist sovhist at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 17 00:28:50 UTC 2022


> I want to use the pdf viewer "Skim" to open the compiled pdf, with
> mainly the advantage that there are no page jumps after making changes
> to the document.
> 
> What are the steps needed to change this in LyX in order to implement
> skim as the pdf viewer?
> 
> The closest thing I came across until now is appendix C in the User
> manual, section File Handling, and section 3 in the customization
> manual, "The Preferences dialog".
> 
> It was a first reading and I haven't grasped everything, but at the
> moment I am not sure if my answer is covered there at all.
> 
> Therefore my question is if those are the places to look at all, and
> if someone can maybe redirect me to a short guide for that?
> --

Hello.

There is guide how to use SyncTeX with Skim:
https://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/SyncTeX#toc4 
I don't own Mac so can't say about Skim, but instructions about other
viewers worked for me.

Hope that'll help,

Valdeamras


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