Re: [AUCTeX-devel] 11.87, some progress, problems with synctex and forward pdf search

[Mosè Giordano]

Hi Uwe,

2014-06-22 23:08 GMT+02:00 Uwe Brauer <address@hidden>:
> Hi
>
> First my system:
> Kubuntu 10.04
> with texlive 2009
> xemacs 21.5.33
>
> Oukular 0.10.5
> evince 2.30.3
> xpdf 3.02
>
>
> I finally got inverse and forward search to work in dvi but *NOT* with
> synctex but with -src.
>
>
>
> `TeX-source-correlate-method' is a variable declared in Lisp.
>   -- loaded from "tex"
>
> Value: source-specials
>
> Even I used customize, I had to restart xemacs to make it work. I repeat
> with the standard setting
>
> TeX-source-correlate-method' synctex
>
> Inverse and forward search does not work in xdvi.

That's because xdvi and most other DVI viewers don't support SyncTeX,
see also this discussion:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.auctex.devel/3164

> PDF
>
> I followed the instructions in
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/161797/how-to-configure-emacs-and-auctex-to-perform-forward-and-inverse-search
>
> which allowed me to use inverse search with okular. I had to configure
> ocular to use gnuclient but then it worked.
> What does not work is forward search
>
>
> But it seems also not to work from the command line. So it might be an
> okular bug
>
> okular --unique <file>.pdf#src:<line number>/path/to/file.tex
>
> As in
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/116633/forward-search-in-emacs-for-okular-not-working
>
> Did not work. Okular always openes the first page of the pdf document
>
> I also tried out again synctex with pdf
> synctex view -i 10:1:file.tex -o file.pdf
>
>
>
> As described in
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/auctex/2009-04/msg00038.html
>
> And it did not work.
>
> So can somebody please tell me how to use inverse and forward search
> with either
>
>     -  xpdf
>
>     -  evidence
>
>     -  okular?
>
> thanks

See http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/116762/31416 to make PDF forward
search works with Okular.

Bye,
Mosè