On 4/13/2024 12:39 AM, Jim wrote:
Hi,
I have both TeXlive 2024 and the stand-alone ConTeXt distribution on my
system.
Recently, the stand-alone ConTeXt distribution seems to not create a
synctex file any more. Specifically,
/usr/local/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin/context --once --texutil
--synctex=1 --nonstop file.tex
does not create a .synctex file (and deletes it, if it is there), whereas
the TeXlive version
/usr/local/texlive/2024/bin/x86_64-linux/context --once --texutil
--synctex=1 --nonstop nwg_newsletter_2024_04.tex
does create the .synctex file.
The ConTeXt distribution version *does* create the file if --nonstop is
*not* used. Knowing that, I can work around this for now, although
emacs+auctex probably won't be happy without --nonstop.
I updated the stand-alone ConTeXt a few minutes ago, so I'm up to date on
that.
Is this a bug introduced by some recent change?
it's more a feature
- Mikael S and i spend some time with editor/viewer combinations on
linux in order to find ways around the different synctex libs that they use
- as a result we could make most work ok
- we assume that synctex is set up in the document with
\setupsynctex[state=start]
\setupsynctex[state=repeat] % less efficient but gets around issue
- when context is run 'headless' (on a server) it's often done in
batchmode because one knows that the style works and in that case
synctex makes no sense so we disable it; this avoids the need to patch
the style
- the manual has been updates
- running context in nonstop mode makes little sense
(maybe, as power user, Mikael remembers more details)
Hans
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