Tex2lyx For Mac

• Tex 2 Lyx For Mac

New in LyX/Mac-1.3.7. The application bundle now includes Spotlight support for Mac OS X 10.4 and higher so that users can search the contents of their.lyx files with Spotlight. Creation of a new default templates folder in /Library/Application Support/LyX/templates/default.

LyX is a modern approach to writing documents which breaks with the obsolete 'typewriter paradigm' of most other document preparation systems. LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX. It makes the power and typesetting quality of LaTeX available for people who are used to word processors.

These are the template files supplied with LyX, and you can now navigate to them easily from the File - New from Template. (Please note that all templates in this folder will be overwritten with each new release of LyX/Mac.). LyX 1.3.7 is able to read all LyX files up to file format 245, the format that we anticipate will be used by the forthcoming LyX 1.4.0. All current 1.3.x users are encouraged to upgrade to this version, which we anticipate to be the last release in the 1.3.x series. The new installer can now be downloaded from here:. Note: All users should run the LyX Installer.command included with the LyX/Mac-1.3.7 distribution.

(On multi-user systems, the script needs to be run once in each account.) The script will clean up old versions of preferences files and remove old fonts, which are no longer needed for LyX/Mac 1.3.4 and greater. It also moves your LyX user's directory to /Library/Application Support/LyX, where it is more easily accessed should you need to add or modify.bind files or templates, for example. (See below for a potential pitfall here. Prerequisites You need a TeX installation. There are three standard options for this. Use the package management system.

To use other implementations of teTeX which do not install the binaries in /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current, /sw/bin, /opt/local/teTeX/bin, or /usr/local/bin, either link the teTeX binaries to one of those directories, or add the PATH of your teTeX binaries to the PATH prefix field in LyX - Preferences - Paths. Using LyX/Mac Start LyX by double-clicking the icon. For those familiar with other versions of LyX, the Mac key functions as the CONTROL key for LyX key-mapping, and the Mac OPTION (ALT) key functions as both a META key and a COMPOSE key. For batch commands or debugging, you can start LyX from the command line with the case-sensitive /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/lyx — modify as needed if you install LyX somewhere other than the Applications folder.

Drag files to the open LyX window to open them. To enable double-clicking LyX files in the Finder, set LyX as the default application in Finder - File - Get Info - Open With.

Mac-like keyboard shortcuts for commands and cursor movements (like ' OPT-LEFT' to move left one word) are provided as the default for new installations. (Users upgrading from earlier versions of LyX/Mac can specify mac.bind as their bind file in LyX - Preferencs - Look and Feel - User Interface. (Simply type 'mac.bind' in that field.) A ready-to-print list of the mapped shortcuts can be found.

To change the GUI language, you'll need to modify your /.MacOSX/environment.plist file. For details, see the page. Tools Previewers LyX/Mac uses the system default viewers, and should require no configuration for PDF and HTML.

Tex 2 Lyx For Mac

If you have or installed, LyX will use them to preview DVI and Postscript. Another good previewer for.dvi,.ps, and.pdf files is, which is also an excellent stand-alone TeX editor. Alternatively, you might want to use which is optimized for LaTeX and features, for example, automatic reloading of the viewed PDF every time the file is saved, that is, if you View - Update your file in LyX, PDFView will automatically display the changes. Place mybindings.bind in /Library/Application Support/LyX/bind and enter mybindings.bind as your Bind file in LyX - Preferences - Look and Feel - User Interface. Converting from TeX to LyX.

LyX-1.3.6 uses reLyX to convert from TeX format to LyX format. A more advanced successor to reLyX is tex2lyx, which, though still under development, is nonetheless quite useful.

Details about tex2lyx and a download link for the Mac version can be found at. For on-screen preview of math with latex-preview (as in the ), make sure you have ghostscript installed and check Instant preview under Preferences - Look & feel - Graphics. Interaction with X11.

Xfig or X-windows previewers like xdvi or gv can be used with LyX/Mac if you modify your /MacOSX/environment.plist file. For details, see the page. Alternatively, you can change the viewer for postscript or dvi with export DISPLAY=:0.0 && gv or export DISPLAY=:0.0 && xdvi. Note that X11 must be running first for either of these to work.

Reverse DVI search, so the cursor in LyX automatically jumps to the point where you OPTION-click (ALT-click) in the previewed DVI file, can be enabled with recent versions of teTeX and MacDviX or xdvi. It looks like the installer puts the following two lines in /Library/Application Support/LyX: format 'pdf' 'pdf' 'PDF (pdflatex)' ' format 'pdf2' 'pdf' 'PDF (ps to pdf)' ' These redefine the pdf output formats in a wrong way and should be deleted. Please report any other bugs to the appropriate Lyx. The information on this page is believed to be accurate, has been used successfully on many systems and sites, and has benefited from the comments and suggestions of many users. Due to the variations in individual systems, this information and the various files and code available on this page are conveyed as is with no warranty of any kind.

Hi Stefan, thanks for your help. In the meantime I thought about your search-and-replace solution myself, and since there were only four troublesome definitions that tex2lyx didn't like, I quickly had a working lyx-version of my tex-file.

I am convinced now that this behaviour of tex2lyx is fully by design, since an underscore in plain text seems to be handled completely different from an underscore in math-mode by LyX. Fixing the underscores AFTER importing in LyX with search-and-replace seems impossible.

So consider this question as solved. Thanks again, I learned yet a bit more about LyX.