Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Support for SyncTeX

[Artemio Gonzalez Lopez]

On Jul 25, 2008, at 7:40 PM, Ralf Angeli wrote:

> * Artemio Gonzalez Lopez (2008-07-25) writes:
>
> > On Jul 25, 2008, at 6:44 PM, Ralf Angeli wrote:
> >
> > > What's the result of
> > > M-: (TeX-source-correlate-determine-method) <RET>
> > > ?
> >
> > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function TeX-source-correlate-
> > determine-method)
>
> Then your AUCTeX installation is too old.  If you are sure that you
> installed a version from the latest CVS sources, perhaps it is being
> shadowed by an older installation.  In that case, `M-x
> list-load-path-shadows <RET>' could help to find the other  
> installation.

You are right! After removing the old installation, I get the new  
Texing Options menu. Sorry for the gaffe!

> > > Do you need to pass any special options to this viewer for inverse
> > > search with SyncTeX to work?
> >
> > I am afraid I don't know how the TeXWorks viewer works, although I
> > think it's based on the Poppler library (I believe the source code is
> > freely available at http://tug.org/texworks).
>
> Before I start looking at the sources, does it give some hints about
> command line options when being called from the command line with
> something like `<viewer> --help'?

Unfortunately, I know next to nothing about TeXworks (I just got it a  
couple of days ago and have tried it only occasionally). On the other  
hand, for the Mac OS X community it would be much better to try to  
make synctex work with the most popular pdf viewer which right now  
supports inverse search and is being actively developed, namely Skim.  
Right now I am successfully using pdfsync with Emacs/auctex and Skim.  
On the auctex side, what I do is use the following entry in TeX Output  
View Style:

("^pdf$" "." "/Users/artemio/Applications/Skim.app/Contents/ 
SharedSupport/displayline %n %o %b")

(displayline is just a small command-line utility included in Skim).

Thanks a lot for your (and David's) help, and thanks once again for  
your work on auctex, which I use every day and is really invaluable  
for my own work!

Cheers,

Artemio