Syncing skim with LyX

Stephan Witt st.witt at gmx.net
Sun Jul 17 15:55:33 UTC 2022


> Am 17.07.2022 um 17:43 schrieb Ehud Behar <ehud.behar at protonmail.com>:
> 
> Stephan Witt and Udicoudco,
> Thank you very much for your reply.
> 
> This is certainly an advance. Now after hitting ⌘+R, Skim is launched and views the file.
> 
> But if I make a change to the file, nothing is updated unless I close the window in Skim and hit ⌘+R again.
> 
> How can I tell skim to update the file?
> 
> Ehud Behar


> 
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Sunday, July 17th, 2022 at 3:53 PM, Stephan Witt <st.witt at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
>> Am 17.07.2022 um 14:31 schrieb Udicoudco <udifoglle at gmail.com>:
>>> 
>>> >What I tried is to to set in Preferences->Outout->General: PDF command "/Applications/Skim.app" as seen in the picture.
>>> 
>>> >And also adding "Contents/SharedSupport/displayline $$n $$o $$t" after "Skim.app/".
>>> 
>>> >But everything is just the same. LyX views the rendered file with macOS Preview.
>>> 
>>> >Any help?
>>>  
>>> Hi Ehud,
>>>  
>>> I think you should go to "Tools->Preferences>File Handling->File Formats", over there select the format you are compiling with and then choose the application you want in the "viewer" menu  (if the application is not in the menu you need to add the path of the exe file of the pdf viewer to the PATH prefix in "Tools->Preferences->Path" and then in "Tools->Preferences>File Handling->File Formats" select in viewer custom and write the path to the exe of the pdf viewer in the text field that will open up). I've attached photos of my configuration to compile with PDF (XeTeX) (my viewer is sumatrapdf). 
>>> <image.png>
>>> <image.png>
>> 
>> Hi Ehud,
>> 
>> yes, it’s the File Formats preference. I’m using PDF (pdflatex) for most of my documents. So I set the Viewer to „open -a Skim“ for pdf2. See the screenshot in with german UI.
>> <Bildschirmfoto 2022-07-17 um 16.48.46.png>
>> 
>> BR, Stephan
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