Re: [AUCTeX] Re: Yap and goto-hyper-label

[David Kastrup]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

> * David Kastrup (2005-05-12) writes:
>
>> For DVI, Source Specials will mostly fill that gap, but for PDF it
>> definitely would be an advantage.
>
> AFAICS there is support for inverse search, e.g. by vpe.sty, but not
> for forward search.  xpdf supports jumping to a specific page in
> server mode.  If AUCTeX could determine the page in the output file
> corresponding to the position of point in the buffer, we could
> implement a poor-man's forward search quite easily.  Probably we
> would have to inject something into the file which spits out the
> page during a LaTeX run and can be parsed by AUCTeX in the run
> buffer.  Does preview-latex have provisions for something like that?

The "counter" option to the preview package does something similar.
Anyway, the correlation between labels and page can be found in the
.aux file.

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