Re: Suggestion: have a feature to enable synctex?

[Gavin Smith]

On Sat, May 04, 2024 at 03:56:14PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 27, 2024 at 09:39:14PM +0000, user202729@protonmail.com wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I think a feature to support synctex in the compilation to PDF would be 
> > helpful, because it allows for quickly navigating between the output and 
> > the source code.
> > 
> > As far as I can see looking through the manual, this feature is currently 
> > not supported.
> 
> I have not much knowledge on the subject, but I had rapid look at the
> Synctex documentation and I tried
> 
> $ texi2dvi -t '\synctex=1' texinfo.texi
> 
> However it did not seem to work.
> 
> I also tried
> 
> pdftex -synctex=1 texinfo.texi
> texindex texinfo.??
> pdftex -synctex=1 texinfo.texi
> texindex texinfo.??
> pdftex -synctex=1 texinfo.texi
> 
> This leads to the creation of texinfo.synctex.gz, so it has probably worked
> as expected.

It's long been in the project TODO file:

  - Include synctex support.

- but I never knew if it was something people would actually use.

"user202729", can you advise if Patrice's method produces working synctex
information in whatever PDF browser/text editor that uses it?  If so,
it may not be difficult to add some extra support for synctex.