On Tue, 21 Aug 2018, Hans Hagen wrote:
Anyway, a better support for "pick-in-PDF-and-go-to-source" (synctex),
namely when user "tunes" the docs to their final stage, would be great.
I think that the current approach to hard code synctex libraries into a
viewer is a limitation (instead an editor should call an external
program with the page and coordinates so that an external program can
then look at the synctex file and decide where to go in the editor. That
way more sophisticated support is possible than the now hard coded
heuristics. Keep in mind that these heuristics are tuned for latex and
from context we generate the real minimal amount of synctex code that
works without clashing with these heuristics. If that were not that case
is would be unuseable.
Anyhow, there's only so much i can do about it (i'm not going to patch
viewers). Currently synctex is mostly working for decent structured
source (can be multiple files).
Which of the existing viewers have this functionality? Last time I tried
using synctex on linux, almost all viewers gave an error that they could
not parse synctex file.
Is there some documentation on what is the format of the synctex file
written by ConTeXt and how the external program should be called with page
and coordinates? With that we can try to raise an issue asking the pdf
viewers to support that.
Thanks,
Aditya
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