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List:       lyx-users
Subject:    Re: Opening files: multiple tabs or multiple windows? -- SOLVED
From:       Adam Treverrow <adamt0 () postoffice ! utas ! edu ! au>
Date:       2009-05-27 1:39:23
Message-ID: 4d0ee63595381d056097f6929eee7a7a () postoffice ! utas ! edu ! au
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Thanks for the speedy response BH - problem solved. I knew the answer 
was staring me in the face!

AT


On 27/05/2009, at 11:23 AM, BH wrote:

> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Adam Treverrow
> <adamt0@postoffice.utas.edu.au> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I've been using LyX (1.3.7) happily for many years now . I've recently
>> received a newer computer and took the opportunity to upgrade to Tex 
>> Live
>> 2008 and LyX 1.6.2 on OS X 10.4.11. The new version is quite a change 
>> from
>> what I'm used to, with plenty of great features. Thanks to all the
>> developers!
>>
>> My problem is that when I open a new or existing file in 1.6.2 I seem 
>> to get
>> a new instance of LyX for each file, instead of multiple tabs in the 
>> one
>> window, as one might expect.
>
> Expectations are different on different platforms. For Mac, the
> expectation is normally one document per window, so we follow that
> expectation with LyX/Mac. (And no, it's not a new instance of LyX for
> each document.)
>
>> How can I -
>>
>> 1. Force new files to open as tabs within a single instance of LyX?
>
> LyX > Preferences > Look & Feel > User interface: check the "Open
> documents in tabs" option.
>
>> 2. Toggle the default behaviour between opening files in a new or 
>> existing
>> LyX window (if it's possible)?
>
> Not possible automatically when opening a file, AFAIK. But you can
> select File > New Window before opening a document, and it should open
> in that new window instead of as a tab of an existing window.
> (Alternatively, if you have documents automatically opening in new
> windows, you can open the document first, then select the window of
> which you want it to be a tab, and select View > [document name]; at
> this point, you can close the old window containing the document.
>
> BH
>

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