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Instant preview

Instant preview is a feature that renders math formulas inside the LyX screen using LaTeX. These are generated on the fly so you can see how they'll look in the final document without having to break your train of thought with View→DVI.

Here's a screenshot (click to enlarge) of LyX in action with Instant Preview enabled.

To enable Instant preview activate the option "Instant preview" in LyX's menu Tools→Preferences→LookFeel→Display. If it doesn't work install the LaTeX-package "preview" (for example via the program "MiKTeX Package Manager" which is available from Windows Start menu). After that package has been installed, you may have to reconfigure LyX with Tools→Reconfigure.

The size of the Instant preview rendered formulas can be adjusted by adding the following line to the section "MISC SECTION" in LyX's preferences file
(on Windows this is in the folder C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\LyX)

(on Windows Vista the default is C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\LyX)

\preview_scale_factor <factor>

The default is

\preview_scale_factor 1

InstantPreview Preview