From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: d_pleydell@yahoo.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Interacting between dvi and latex in emacs. Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:34:34 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1184592874.948632.159830@o61g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> References: <20070711194152.A12059E8788@ufc.univ-fcomte.fr> <87odig84do.fsf@tele2.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184596387 18412 80.91.229.12 (16 Jul 2007 14:33:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:33:07 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 16 16:33:05 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IARdF-0005vb-FH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:33:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IARdF-0003ry-12 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:33:01 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!o61g2000hsh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.55.70.186 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1184592875 9269 127.0.0.1 (16 Jul 2007 13:34:35 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:34:35 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87odig84do.fsf@tele2.fr> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061205 Iceweasel/2.0.0.1 (Debian-2.0.0.1+dfsg-2),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: o61g2000hsh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=193.55.70.186; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:150138 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:27:10 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:45725 Archived-At: Thanks for all the feed back. To summarise a little for others xdvi handles forward and inverse searching curtosy of autex. This is enabled with C-c C-t C-s. To do the forward search you have to compile and display the latex file every time you want that feature i.e. either C-c C-c two or three times plus enter twice to get the new display (quite labourious if repeated often), or with the gui buttons for latex and dvi which for once is easier. The inverse search is simpler, ctrl-mouse in the dvi and emacs will jump to the relevant buffer at the relevant point. A faster alternative for forward seasrch is whizzytex used with advi. The forward search is automatic, although can take a second or two to calculate. For inverse search use shft-mouse. A whizzy menu is added to emacs when you do M-x whizzytex-mode and you have options on slicing, that is you can restrict automatic updating to a single section (default) or chapter if you like. This probably saves computation time and also always puts the start of the section at the top of the page in advi when xdvi might be displaying the paragraph you are working on on two different pages, so a nice feature. Where xdvi is still nicer though is to have the clickable page numbers and scrolling with the arrow and page buttons. In advi you can only go through the pages successively with n (next) or p (previous) which is a little idiosyncratic. Appart from this gripe advi seems the smarter way to go due to it's auto forward search which also includes a yellow character cursor in the dvi display - the xdvi equivelent to which is a less precise bounding box on the current paragraph. If you really want page jumping you can use both xdvi and advi at the same time but confussion between ctrl-mouse (xdvi) with shft-mouse (advi) seems likely. kdvi also has possibilities with quite a functional viewer and what appears to be quite detailed help files, but I hit configuration issues which I didn't spend any time fighting. Also whizzytex is said to work with xdvi too, but I couldn't get that working quickly. hope all that is useful for someone.