Syncing skim with LyX

[ehud.behar at protonmail.com]

I don't export to tex and then to pdf, I said that just to clarify that .lyx is one type of a file extension, .tex is another one, and .pdf is yet another file..

By the way, what does the $$i option that you added to "open -a Skim.app" do?

With the help of the other members my LyX is set to the first way you described. Thanks very much.


------- Original Message -------
On Tuesday, July 19th, 2022 at 11:19 PM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <nospam at lisse.NA> wrote:


>
>
> Ehud,
>
> First of all why compile to tex and then to pdf, instead of doing this
> directly?
>
>
> There are however (at least) two ways of doing this:
>
> First look in the
>
> Document
>
> pulldown for
>
> View [PDF (LuaTeX)]
>
> can be also
>
> [PDF (pdflatex)]
>
> which is tied (in my case) to CMD-R
>
>
> Then in
>
> Perferences -> File Handling -> File Formats -> Format:
>
>
> look for
>
> [PDF (LuaTeX)]
>
> and set
>
> Viewer: [Custom] [open -a Skim.app $$i]
>
> click
>
> Apply
>
> and perhaps do same for
>
> [PDF (pdflatex)]
>
>
> You can also select an PDF in the finder and then enter
>
> CMD-I
>
> which will open a window with lots of information and you usually would
> find
>
> Open With: ...
>
> showing
>
> Preview.
>
> You can change that in the Pulldown to Skim for this (single) file or
> for all files, so that double clicking on a PDF will open it with skim,
> and the default method of opening PDFs in Skim would also change to
> skim.
>
> I do the latter, as I use skim for almost every PDF.
>
> greetings, el
>
>
>
> On 2022-07-17 00:22 , Ehud Behar via lyx-users wrote:
>
> > I am using macOS and until now, after compiling the lyx file (to tex and
>
> > then) to a pdf file, the output was opened by the default pdf viewer
>
> > (macOS Preview, on my computer).
>
> > 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?
>
>
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