From e9915397590533effd70024db922057ff3cdb6c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pavel Sanda <sanda@lyx.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 00:27:00 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Forward search: add Enrico's comment from uses list.

---
 lib/doc/Additional.lyx | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/doc/Additional.lyx b/lib/doc/Additional.lyx
index 8aa0e5ab4b..59a31d17ec 100644
--- a/lib/doc/Additional.lyx
+++ b/lib/doc/Additional.lyx
@@ -6077,7 +6077,26 @@ scr-specials
 \emph default
  approach.
  You need at least TeXLive 2008 or a recent MikTeX distribution in order
- to use it.
+ to use it
+\begin_inset Foot
+status collapsed
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+For some reason, MikTeX does not understand/obey the command LyX inserts
+ into the preamble when you check the "Enable Forward/Reverse Search" button
+ in the toolbar and does not generate the necessary info.
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+The generation of the required info can be forced by changing the converter
+ "LaTeX (pdflatex) -> PDF (pdflatex)" in Preferences->File handling->Converters
+ from the default "pdflatex $$i" to "pdflatex -synctex=1 $$i" (i.e., by adding
+ the -synctex=1 switch).
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+.
  Also note that only a few PDF viewers (Skim on the Mac, SumatraPDF on Windows)
  already provide SyncTeX support.
 \end_layout
-- 
2.39.2