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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------