14
votes
Accepted
How to get SyncTeX for Windows to allow Atom pdf-view to synch?
The binary in question is distributed (only) as part of TeXLive and should be installed in the TeXLive binary folder (something like C:\texlive\2016\bin\win32\synctex.exe). Note, however, that its ...
- 1,970
10
votes
Accepted
Click right to "Go to source code" with Texstudio
I also had this bug recently. The bug is not related with the actual application; it is due to corrupted profile. This is what I learned after some experimentation. So, for the Mac OS, look at your ...
- 837
9
votes
Accepted
How does synctex work?
First of all: The most important (but unfortunately slightly outdated) reference is the SyncTeX manpage which contains a grammar describing SyncTeX's lines.
Some of the most important concepts will ...
- 33.4k
8
votes
How do I close a busy synctex.gz file?
I experienced the same problem but figured out that it was simply a conflict with Google Drive, trying to sync the file before texmaker managed to finish compiling.
So if you have continuous backups ...
- 181
8
votes
Configure forward search with Texmaker + SumatraPDF
This answer aims to comprehend the steps for both TeXmaker v4.5 and TeXstudio v2.12.22 with SumatraPDF v3.2
TeXmaker
In Texmaker, go to Options > Configure Texmaker > Commands
In External ...
- 9,393
7
votes
Accepted
When is Synctex file written?
Looking at the source the synctex file is closed as the really last thing after all callbacks
/* Close {\sl Sync\TeX} file and write status */
synctexterminate(log_opened_global); /* ...
- 741k
6
votes
How to setup synctex with vim, pdflatex and an open-source PDF-viewer under Linux?
Following frabjous's answer and with some inputs from this blogpost I got this working with GVim + Zathura. Important things to do are:
Configure ~/.config/zathura/zathurarc to setup inverse search
...
- 210
6
votes
"Go to source code" function with texstudio
I believe the problem is related to a missing / defect yourFileName.synctex.gz file. In my case the problem was caused by Google Drive (other cloud sync services like Dropbox or OneDrive might cause ...
- 342
6
votes
How to set up forward/inverse searches with AUCTeX and Zathura
A few of months ago, Zathura was updated so that calling --synctex-forward will open the file if it isn't already open. As a result, the answer by @jsrn actually opens two instances of Zathura and ...
- 8,859
6
votes
“click to jump to the line” is not working!
I had the same problem on windows 7 and found a solution from here:
[http://latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=23400]
Frank in the answer said on that site: get rid of any spaces or ...
- 160
6
votes
Click right to "Go to source code" with Texstudio
New answer inspired by @Dellu: you need to restore the default settings to fix this problem. Just delete the settings file (texstudio.ini), while Texstudio is not running. Otherwise it will recreate ...
- 587
6
votes
How to get SyncTeX for Windows to allow Atom pdf-view to synch?
For those who found that the above answer did not work.
You can get SyncTeX to work on Atom via the following:
Download synctex.exe and kpathsea623.dll.
Place these inside \MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64 ...
- 171
5
votes
Accepted
Prevent small, automatic spaces from splitting a word
One possibility would be to use the accsupp package, which allows us to define alternate texts for use by screen readers. A side-effect of this is that the text stream that is copied/searched from the ...
- 29.4k
5
votes
texshop 3.62 sync not working with Mac OSX 10.11.5
"Alternatively, adding a line
\synctex=1
in the preamble of a tex file triggers the synchronization with SyncTeX, not only with pdflatex, but with other TeX commands too."
(http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/...
- 51
5
votes
Accepted
Reverse / inverse search with Skim and Sublime Text (ST3) not working (creates new empty doc)
In my case the issue was the use of backslashes in the doc title or anywhere in the folder structure of the path. e.g. a folder titled maybe / maybe not broke the inverse-search functionality. ...
- 1,697
5
votes
Hide .synctex files
There's no WinEdt macro that acts on the file attributes.
However we can tell WinEdt to use the attrib DOS command to achieve what you want.
These are the steps you have to follow:
Open the file %B\...
- 124k
5
votes
Case sensitive search in TeXShop
What you are seeing is the new default for TeXShop, the Apple Find Bar. It DOES have the ability to do a Case Sensitive Find by clicking on the Magnifying Glass at the left side. The Apple Find Bar ...
- 3,355
5
votes
SyncTeX not working right with LuaLaTeX in TeX Live
Your example works fine both with miktex and texlive when I use sumatra as viewer and winedt as editor.
With texstudio I can confirm that it works with miktex but fails with texlive with lualatex but ...
- 321k
4
votes
"Goto Source" opens pgflibraryfadings.code.tex
I had a similar problem when using the tikzlibrary "shadows".
As proposed here, if the library is not being used, removing it "solves" the problem.
%\usetikzlibrary{shadows}
- 65
4
votes
Accepted
TeX-based solution to Google Drive sync problems
Solution 1
As GoogleDrive does not support (yet) exclude patterns, but does support exclude folders, one option is to dump all output files to a separate folder (in the case of MikTeX you can ...
- 23.8k
4
votes
How to configure the sync between latex and resulting pdf in AUCTeX?
Assuming that you have AUCTeX 12 installed, it will be sufficient to replace your configuration with these lines:
(server-start)
(setq TeX-view-program-selection '((output-pdf "Okular")))
(setq TeX-...
- 7,280
4
votes
Ctrl+click not working properly
If @Andrea Angeletti's answer is not enough, it may be due to an accentuated character in the path of the file (see here, in French):
If, for example, your document is in C:\Documents and
Settings\...
- 141
4
votes
Accepted
What's the \synctex primitive? Where is it documented?
extensions.c in the luatex source has
int synctexoption;
/*tex
A convenient primitive is provided: \.{\\synctex=1} in the input source file
enables synchronization whereas \.{\\synctex=0} ...
- 741k
3
votes
How to setup synctex with vim, pdflatex and an open-source PDF-viewer under Linux?
Steps for Vim & Okular
The accepted answer got me most of the way to making this work with Okular, but I had a couple of issues. So I'd like to provide an elaborate description with some more ...
- 133
3
votes
Jump to the line texmaker is not working
The following will help to configure both forward/inverse searches.
Make sure you type the correct installation directory of Texmaker and SumatraPDF.
In Texmaker, go to Options > Configure ...
- 9,393
3
votes
Accepted
emacsclient issue when using pdfsync on Mac OS X
In the Command line, the location of emacsclient should be specified.
Other setups
latexmkrc
If you want to use latexmk, these configuration setup should be added in ~/.latexmkrc.
$pdflatex = '...
- 6,013
3
votes
Texmaker generated pdf file not showing the position of cursor
As Martin Schröder wrote:
synctex does not like special characters, follow best practices for file names.
But this is applicable even for all names of directories, in which the tex file is. I had ...
- 31
3
votes
Accepted
\synctex=1 being an ‘Undefined control sequence’
With LaTeX kernels older than the 2015 release, the primitive should be called as
\luatexsynctex=1
In the current kernel, the luatex prefix has been dismissed.
For a foolproof setting, do
\...
- 1.1m
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible