On 2021-05-21, Hans Hagen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 5/21/2021 10:50 AM, Nicola wrote:
>> On 2021-05-20, Hans Hagen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>> One thing he asked is what I was asking you: it
>>>> would be useful if there were a way to sync in the other direction as
>>>> well.
>>> You mean sort of trying to deduce from the synctex file where to go in
>>> the pdf?
>>
>> Yes. You provide a .tex file and a line number, and maybe also an
>> optional column number, and mtxrun outputs a .pdf file, a page number
>> and a coordinate pair or bounding box (I don't know what the best output
>> is).
>
> define 'tex file' ... is that the master file? in that case we're
> talking about the 'foo.synctex file' because how does a tex file knows
> what pdf is related?

Good point. I don't know how/if searching from source to PDF works in
TeXShop when the source is split into several files.

Nicola

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