{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-inverse search using SyncTeX with the precison of a single word
I would like to know if SyncTeX supports forward search and inverse search in a precision of a single word. The "default" implementation in both TeXLive and MikTeX only seems to be able to synchronize ...
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Setup SyncTeX with Emacs
I want to setup SyncTeX with Emacs, or, more specifically, with AUCTeX, and Evince in Ubuntu. How can I do that? I would like both forward search (from source to output) and inverse search (from ...
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Configure forward search with Texmaker + SumatraPDF
Texmaker has a Built-in pdf viewer which supports synctex forward/inverse search out of the box. This Built-in viewer can be displayed embedded or in a separate window, external viewers always have a ...
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How to setup synctex with vim, pdflatex and an open-source PDF-viewer under Linux?
Inspired by the comments to this answer I am curious how to actually setup and use forward/reverse (inverse) search with vim, pdflatex and an open-source PDF-viewer under Linux.
Btw, to give more ...
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Is there a “ForwardPDF” tool available?
When I am working on a big document, I find the srcltx package to be extremely useful. However, I also really like the hyperref package. Is it possible to use both? In particular, is there a way to ...
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Synctex and Environments [closed]
Synctex makes it possible to jump between your LaTeX code and the compiled PDF, which is absolutely great, if you have larger documents. However it is my impression that when you use environments, ...
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Location inside a LaTeX source code
When viewing a pdf of a long LaTeX document, it can sometimes be difficult to find where a certain equation or a line in the pdf is located in the source code, as there are no page numbers in 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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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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How to set up inverse search with Okular and Kile
The title pretty much sums it up. I use the package srcltx in my documents. I am running Ubuntu with Kile 2.1 and Okular 0.8.2 as a viewer. I am pretty sure that inverse search should work, but I ...
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Why is synctex in TL 2011 so fussy about filenames?
The forward search script I had written for vim and mupdf is no longer working since installing TL 2011, and upon investigating why, it seems that synctex is now very fussy about filenames, at least ...
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SyncTeX functionality in TeXShop and TeXworks
I have a LaTeX source code compiled with synctex=1. If I open it in TeXShop
and I can click in the viewer on a certain word then I am navigated exactly on the word in the source code. By contrast, if ...
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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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Setting up forward search between Emacs+AUCTeX and Evince
Did anyone succeed setting up forward search between Emacs+AUCTeX and evince?
In order to establish inverse/forward search between Emacs+AUCTeX and evince, it is necessary to:
install new TeX Live ...
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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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How to double-click in PDF document to go to source code?
When creating a document, I usually build a DVI document because the YAP viewer has a nice feature which allows me to double-click on a word in the DVI document which then causes the source-code ...
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synctex problem with -output-directory in TeXLive
I am currently using Windows 7, TeXLive2011, and TeXworks 0.4.3.
I want to put all temporary files in tmp directory located in the same working directory as the .tex file. But, I want the final .pdf ...
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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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Using SyncTeX with Adobe Acrobat Reader
The font rendering quality of Adobe Acrobat Reader is far superior to that of other PDF viewers. It also supports scripting via JavaScript. The debugger for JavaScript can apparently be enabled in ...
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LaTeX viewer and forward search: how to achieve?
(solved)
I am facing some problem with viewing the PDF. I am using TeXnicCenter on windows.
How can I direct Adobe Reader 10.1 so that it opens at the place where the file was last edited?
This is ...
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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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How can I keep browsing my pdf with synctex at the same time as LaTeX is rebuilding it?
As discussed here pdflatex preview problem: white pdf pages with only hyperref-rectangles visible during compile? when working on my dissertation which takes a long time to compile (even when ...
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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 ...

