On Oct 12, 2011, at 18:38, Dagnat Fabien wrote:

> Googling more on possible synctex issues led to:
> - 
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/25578/why-is-synctex-in-tl-2011-so-fussy-about-filenames
> - http://forums.fofou.org/sumatrapdf/topic?id=2131346
> which seems to highlight some changes on synctex in TL 2011 (I had forgotten 
> to say that I had also upgraded TL).
> The file name given to synctex should now be given as a full path (which 
> seems to be a new feature) and furthermore the path must end with a /./ 
> (which seems to be a bug).
> 

Skim should not care about the /./ and relative/full path issue, as we 
explicitly pass filenames the way synctex uses them. 

> I'm not sure if it is the cause of my problems. I think that for forward 
> search it must be taken into account inside aquamacs but for backward search 
> skim must be in control, no?

Not quite, both are involved. But I don't remember how aquamacs calls Skim. 

>> From what I understand, the backward command send the filename (%file in the 
>> preference window). In which form is sent?
> 

It passes the full POSIX path, possibly with some shell escapes.

Though I thought you were laking about forward search?

And what about calling Skim's displayline script from the command line? That 
can tell you for sure whether Skim's part works.

Christiaan

> Fabien
> 
> Le 12 oct. 2011 à 14:01, Christiaan Hofman a écrit :
> 
>> 
>> On Oct 12, 2011, at 13:49, Dagnat Fabien wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> I would like to know if any other aquamacs + skim user has recently lost 
>>> synchronization. And I would to track down the cause.
>>> 
>>> Last week, I upgraded to lion and yesterday I upgraded skim. Since then, 
>>> synchronization has a strange behavior.
>>> 
>>> On multiple file source document the synchronization from aquamacs to Skim 
>>> only work when launched from the main source file (jumping rightly to the 
>>> right position). When using it on an auxiliary file, skim only raise 
>>> (showing previous position) and no red point appear. In that case console 
>>> shows:
>>> 12/10/11 10:55:41,853 Skim: SyncTeX was unable to find location and page.
>>> It used to work like a charm...
>>> 
>>> Backward synchronization (from Skim) simply stopped to work. On console, I 
>>> get:
>>> 12/10/11 11:01:20,125 Skim: SyncTeX was unable to find location and page.
>>> 12/10/11 11:01:24,132 Skim: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: 
>>> CGSRegisterCursorWithData2: Invalid hot spot (outside of cursor bitmap)
>>> 12/10/11 11:01:24,132 Skim: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ 
>>> CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
>>> 12/10/11 11:01:24,132 Skim: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: 
>>> CGSRegisterCursorWithData2: Invalid hot spot (outside of cursor bitmap)
>>> ...
>>> 
>>> I ask myself wether it is :
>>> - a lion issue
>>> - a syntex issue
>>> - a skim issue
>>> - an aquamacs issue
>>> 
>>> Until now, I have tried downgrading to Skim 1.3.17 and rebooting but it 
>>> does not help.
>>> 
>>> Any ideas anyone?
>>> 
>>> Fabien
>> 
>> We did not change synchronisation. So it must be in the information Skim 
>> gets. Best chance is that's due to synctex, but I really can't say.
>> 
>> I don't think the messages after the first have anything to do with it, they 
>> also occur a full 4 seconds later (which is a very long time in computing).
>> 
>> Christiaan
>> 
>> 
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