Re: Interacting between dvi and latex in emacs.

[David Kastrup]

d_pleydell@yahoo.com writes:

> Thanks for all the feed back. To summarise a little for others
>
> xdvi handles forward and inverse searching curtosy of autex. This is
> enabled with C-c C-t C-s. To do the forward search you have to
> compile and display the latex file every time you want that feature
> i.e. either C-c C-c two or three times plus enter twice to get the
> new display (quite labourious if repeated often), or with the gui
> buttons for latex and dvi which for once is easier. The inverse
> search is simpler, ctrl-mouse in the dvi and emacs will jump to the
> relevant buffer at the relevant point.

One thing worth mentioning is that for several use cases (most
important probably mathematics) for which inverse/reverse search is
convenient, preview-latex (which is included in AUCTeX) provides a
much nicer workflow and makes better use of the screen estate.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum