{forward-inverse-search} is a technology for having synchronization between source and preview, e.g., being able to Ctrl-click (or similar) in the source and jump to the corresponding place in the preview of the document, and vice versa.
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Forward search from input file using TeXNicCenter
I'm using TeXnicCenter 2 Beta 1 (on a Windows Vista machine) and I am trying to use the forward search. It is configured with Sumatra pdf so that when I press F5 to View Output, Sumatra pdf comes to ...
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What is the closest alternative for TeXnicCenter + SumatraPDF on mac?
I am getting a mac soon, and I am freaked out the fact that I won't be able to use my very much familiar TeXnicCenter + SumatraPDF magic tools.
I googled around and decided to switch to TeXMaker, ...
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differences of pdf sync in TexShop
I have this stupid issue that bothers me. I use TexShop on two different computers, and when I command-click the source code (i.e., a forward-inverse search), each computer behaves differently.
One ...
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AucTeX PDF syncing in Emacs, multiple windows problem
I have enabled Tex-source-correlate-mode with syntex as the syncing method. When I have a single Emacs window open, it works fine. But if I have multiple Emacs windows open, whenever I press Ctrl-left ...
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Inverse search issue - (sumatra + TeXnicCenter)
Issues:
no synchronization info at this position: There is a error dialog box that opens with inverse search between sumatra and TXC. When I double click on the PDF , it shows me the error as ...
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TeXnicCenter - Forward search issue [closed]
I have been facing this intermittent problem with TeXnicCenter [TC] forward search.
I have gone through many posts in TeX.SX and I have followed what is to be done. It works at times and at times ...
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TeXworks Synctex not working
Using TeXworks Version 0.4.4 r.1003 (Fedora).
I have a main.tex file and several included files. I have placed
% !TEX root = path/to/root
at the top of the included files. I select Typeset and ...
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Texstudio and Texmaker forward and inverse search
Do these programs support forward and inverse search (with built in PDF viewer or YAP) for files that have a root file which has many chapter files used with \include? I have tried this with no ...
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How to put synctex file in different directory than pdf without segmentation fault?
I want to put output files (.pdf) into a _out dir and auxiliary files such as .synctex.gz or .toc into a _aux subdir.
From the help it seems that the -d option is what allows one to do it, but if I ...
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Change view-command in Emacs and AUCTeX (pdf mode)
My version of Emacs and AUCTeX[1] uses
TeX-evince-sync-view
for viewing pdf.
This command is not working for some reason. Evince is launched but Emacs freezes and I have an error
Couldn't find ...
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Set up SyncTeX with Emacs DocView
I have the source in one emacs buffer and the compiled pdf in another DocView buffer with auto-revert-mode enabled. Using latexmk -pvc to compile gives me live previews. Now I want to setup forward ...
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Issue with TeXMaker on win7 and beamer [closed]
Not sure if this question is appropriate for this forum...
Just wondering if others can confirm this before sending it to the developers.
Setup:
TeXMaker
TeXLive 2012
pdflatex with synctex enabled
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Unstable SyncTeX in a large document [closed]
I have encountered a strange SyncTeX problem for which I'm unable to provide an MWE.
In a 40+ page document with a table of contents (after which a \clearpage, SyncTeX stops working in one subsection ...
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TexMaker + Sumatra PDF Forward search
I am trying to configure TexMaker with SumatraPDF.
This has previously been discussed
Configure forward search with Texmaker + SumatraPDF
but the solutions did not work for me.
Under "Options >> ...
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srcbook doesn't seem to work with synctex
I have bigger TeX document and I'm using srcbook with the following customisations:
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Configuring forward and inverse search with TeXmaker 3.5.2 + SumatraPDF 2.2.1
I can't configure forward and inverse search with TeXmaker 3.5.2 + SumatraPDF 2.2.1, i already tried all solutions given for this kind of problem in Configure forward search with Texmaker + SumatraPDF ...
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Pdf sync with TeXShop
I am using TexShop on a Mac OS X Lion. I can sync between the pdf file and the tex file by a right click on "Sync" on the mouse.
My question is the following:
Is it possible also when I compile a ...
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“Forward/Inverse search” with Texmaker on Win 7 fall
Until yesterday I had the sync working properly on my editor TeXmaker 3.3.4. But today, no message associated with synchronization error, TeXmaker 3.3.4 lost synchronization.
I tried to reconfigure ...
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Texmaker generated pdf file not showing the position of cursor
I am compiling LaTeX files with Texmaker on Ubuntu 12.04 system.
When I run pdflatex and then view the pdf file (internal), it does not show me the exact place where I am editing on Texmaker i.e. ...
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Finding something in the TeX document from the PDF
I am compiling a PDF (Adobe) using LaTeX (TexWorks) so I have the text document on one side of the screen and the PDF on the other, is there any way to select something on the PDF and it to find that ...
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Does pdf syncing (forward-inverse search) work with XeLaTeX?
I commonly use textmate+skim or more recently texpad.
I have zero problems with pdfsyncing (especially since skim fixed a bug not so long ago).
Even more recently I have been playing around with ...
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How to get forward-search working in Kile with nested source files
I have a huge set of .tex files which compile into a single document. I have recently switched to Kile on Unbuntu (love it so far). However I see that forward search from source files other than the ...
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Setup SyncTeX with Emacs on debian stable (squeeze)
Is it possible to setup SyncTeX with Emacs on debian stable (squeeze)?
Emacs24 is available from http://emacs.naquadah.org/ but squeeze is at its end of cycle and most other tools are outdated.
$ ...
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Issues when using inverse/forward search with vim and xdvi (linux)
I am using vim 7.3.35 with the vim-latexsuite on ubuntu. After googling around I managed to setup forward/inverse search with xdvi by adding the following to my .vimrc:
let g:Tex_CompileRule_dvi = ...
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Forward/Inverse Search Does Not work on certain tex files
I have this weird issue with forward and inverse searches.
I am using WinEdt + Sumatra combination. The forward and inverse search works perfectly on certain some .tex files, but fails on some others.
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How to configure Okular so that I can locate the line approximately correct, when in forwardPDF
I am using Kile editing my tex files, with Okular for viewing the dvi and PDF files. And I can search the source file from PDF fairly well. I have configured Kile as follows in order to highlight the ...
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Problem with pdfcomment and pdfsync [duplicate]
I have a problem with using both pdfsync and pdfcomment together: once I use pdfsync, the comment causes a line break, which it shouldn't do. As an example, compile with and without ...
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How to forward search to a character when editing using Vim?
We can forward search to a line in a tex file opened in Vim by setting the following in a pdf viewer (I'm using okular):
gvim --servername GVIM --remote +%l %f
But can we go straight to the ...
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How to do forward search to PDF file opened with Okular from include files when editing using VIM/GVIM
I'm using vim to edit my tex files and I use latex suite as a plugin to compile my tex sources and view them in using Okular pdf viewer.
Setting the following in Okular settings makes inverse search ...
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Is the pdfsync package still relevant?
I just got a bug report for multicol because of a strange white space at the top of the first column and I traced it to the use of the pdfsync package that added material in various places that did ...
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Syncing feature between editor and pdf viewer not working
I'm using TeXStudio on Windows 7 with MikTeX. I don't know how to get the "Jump to source" command that appears in the mouse right-click menu, in the pdf viewer, once I compile a *.tex file with Quick ...
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from tex source file jump to pdf in Texlipse
In TexWorks, it is easy to jump between tex source and pdf files. In Texlipse, jump from pdf to source is easily clicking the part of pdf file, but what is the symmetric easy way to jump from tex file ...
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Making Preamble File and SyncTeX with Kile (in Linux)
I am on an Ubuntu system with TeXLive as my TeX-distribution. I would like to write a common style file and include this file in every document. What should the extension of such a file be?
And, ...
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How to set up texi2dvi with synctex and error handling?
I would like to set up texi2dvi (with error-handling, synctex for forward and backward syncronization, and Okular as
viewer) to compile .tex documents (under Ubuntu 12.04 with Emacs 24).
(In case ...
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AUCTex with TeX-evince-sync-view [closed]
I'm using AUCTeX version 2012-07-04 installed with el-get. The default View command for PDF's is TeX-evince-sync-view. When I run it, I get the error:
TeX-evince-sync-view: D-Bus error: "Did not ...
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Automatic build and forward search in TeXlipse [closed]
I just switched to TeXlipse for editing latex documents.
Right now, after the document is built automatically, I have to explicitly use Ctrl+4 in order to activate the forward search.
I would like ...
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How to pass pdflatex option “-synctex=1” to texi2dvi?
How can I pass the option -synctex=1 (for synctex support) of pdflatex to texi2dvi?
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Finding the corresponding tex file/line from pdf
I am working on a pretty big latex project (a book) and I'd like to be able to quickly find the corresponding .tex file and line number, when having the resulting PDF in front of me.
Being ...
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TeX equivalent to #line
In C there is #line which allows stating the origin of a particular line of code. This is useful for autogenerated C source files: The (unreadable) code in the generated file is mapped back to the ...
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pdflatex, latexmk, synctex: Adding an option to pdflatex causes synctex to fail
The user "Mike" kindly helped me on Latex, Emacs: automatically open TeX Help buffer on error and close it after correction of the error? to create the following function which makes error detection ...
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How to set up Okular for forward/backward search with TeX Live 2011? (not trivial anymore)
I am working with Xbuntu 12.04 on a MacBook Air 4,1. I have Okular version 0.14.3 and TeX Live 2011 installed.
I used to have perfect forward (from .tex to .pdf) and backward (from .pdf to .tex) ...
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Tweaking the syncing between editor and viewer [closed]
I've been using TextMate and Skim for a while and they work great.
For some reason though, whenever I compile the tex code Skim opens up the pdf but always manages to get the line wrong.
What I mean ...
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How to enable LyX forward search with okular
The title says it. The instructions in http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/SyncTeX no longer works for forward search. I think the PDF command:
okular --unique "file:$$o#src:$$n $$t"
is no longer working for new ...
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Kile inverse search fails with Texlive 2011 [closed]
I am using Scientific Linux 6.1. When I installed Kile it came with Texlive 2007 so I installed Texlive 2011 and made necessary changes to make Kile use Texlive 2011.
The problem is , am unable to ...
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TeXnicCenter and Sumatra PDF forward/inverse search off by a few paragraphs [closed]
I am using TeXnicCenter 2.0 Alpha 4 and MikTex 2.9 with SumatraPDF 2.0.1.
My forward/inverse search is off by 3-4 paragraphs. Forward/inverse search under DVI and YAP works correctly. My setup is ...
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Accumulating synctex files [closed]
I have noticed that the folder where I keep my latex source files is gradually accumulating files that look like this:
main.synctex
main.synctex(busy)
main (from XXX - 2).synctex
main (from XXX - ...
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How to make kile to accept absolute pathnames at inverse search?
I have the combination Kile and SumatraPDF under Windows 7. The inverse search is running so far. The main problem is, that if I activate it, Kile opens the file in a new tab under the absolute path ...
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SumatraPDF Inverse Search
I wanted to set the SumatraPDF Inverse-Search option on Inlage, according to instructions on this page.
For some reason, my "options" menu ends at "Make SumatraPDF my default PDF reader" and doesn't ...
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Setup Synctex with Emacs in Windows with Sumatra PDF [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
A simpleton's guide to (…)TeX workflow with emacs
I want to setup SyncTeX in GNU Emacs 23.3.1 with Auctex 11.86 to work with Sumatra PDF 2.0.1. I use Windows ...
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Is forward search meant to work from an include file?
I am able to forward search from an emacs buffer containing my top level tex file to sumatrapdf by using the f8 key which is bound to Sumatra-jump-to-line. If i visit a buffer with a file included in ...

