Re: Synctex with auctex and Skim

[Tom Dye <tsd@tsdye.com>]

On 2009-07-20 09:05:46 -1000, Giovanni Lanzani <ulissesroc@gmail.com> said:

> Hi there,
> 
> I'm using the CVS version of Emacs.app and I would like to use synctex
> from Skim.app with Emacs.app (+ Auctex loaded). However it doesn't
> work (while it does with Aquamacs). Has anyone any clue about this
> issue? In the TeX on Mac OS X wiki (http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/wiki/
> index.php?title=SyncTeX) it is reported that synctex should work with
> Carbon Emacs. Are there modifications in Carbon Emacs which could
> explain the syncing between pdf and .tex to work inside it and not to
> work in the vanilla version of Emacs.app?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Giovanni

Giovanni,

From what I understand, you should be able to achieve in Emacs what 
Carbon Emacs does with synctex.  If I remember correctly, there are two 
things to do: 1) configure Emacs so the latex command invokes synctex, 
and 2) start the server so synctex can use emacsclient to get back to 
the running instance of Emacs.  These steps are fully documented and 
you should be able to find them.  These steps let you jump from a pdf 
file back into the LaTeX document, but not from the LaTeX document to 
the pdf file.

I believe that the ability to jump from the LaTeX file to the pdf file 
in Aquamacs is due to some code written expressly for Aquamacs.

HTH,
Tom

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Tom Dye
T. S. Dye & Colleagues, Archaeologists, Inc.
Honolulu, Hawai`i