Hi, I was using MikTeX and YAP previewer for my tex files in Windows. My editor of choice was WinEdt. Recently, I switced to Debian/sarge. I was expecting the same functionality of inverse and forward search in TeTeX. However what I observed in TeTeX is different in MikTeX.
When I make a forward search in WinEdt, YAP displays the position roughly corresponding to your current position in YAP. It points the corresponding line and puts a circle on the line in the YAP(one line below or above of it at the worst). Inverse searching in YAP works almost the same: When you initiate the inverse search from the YAP previewer, the editor displays the corresponding source line in a small margin of error. In my Debian/Sarge system, I use TeTeX(ver:3.0.13) and Xdvi(ver:22.84.9). When I initiate a forward search from gvim, Xdvi draws a rectangle around the paragraph in which the correspoding line in a source file belongs to. So it is a big margin of error. Inverse search works with the same big margin of error. It doesn't matter where you click in a paragraph in Xdvi, it always points the begining of a paragraph in the corresponding source file. I don't know what is the wrong with these inverse and forward search. I don't think gvim or Xdvi is a culprit. I tried with different editors(emacs,nedit) and different dvi viewers(kdvi). I get the same result. Maybe TeTeX doesn't handle well '--src-specials' with comparision to MikTeX. I would like to thank all the developers of the TeTeX. Ahmet Nurlu
