Re: [NTG-context] SyncTeX and mkiv

Hi Mojca, Thanks for your attention. I’ll do some testing with the syntax context —synctex istead of context —synctex=1 and then I’ll report any changes in the behaviour of SyncTeX. Actually if SyncTeX could find in the source a paragraph, or a sctructure like \startformula \stopformula that would be largely enough for most of us (when writing a maths, or physics, book or lecture notes often a formula or an expression is used several times and so finding a specigic one of them through a search in the sourec file is not really convenient). Regarding yoru observation for the missing « t » in \stoptext, I just made an error when copy-pasting… Usually I never forget the right syntax of \starttext\stoptext… Best regards: OK

On 07 Apr 2015, at 10:32, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

Hi,

SyncTeX usually works for me, but I need to use context --synctex ... (I don't know if --synctex=1 is supposed to work in ConTeX. I believe that Hans changed the syntax.)

Enabling it inside the document doesn't work for me for some reason. Hans suggested to put the command inside the first line (modeline or however that one is called).

But "context --synctex filename.tex" generally works. It is not as precise as it could be (it often knows only paragraphs, not individual lines or characters, but that's ok given how much extra info would be needed to store position of every character) and it doesn't know all the elements (text on metafun figures and other weird elements might not have a sync point), but I never experienced any really strange behaviour or positioning discrepancies. I'm using Skim.app.

On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Otared Kavian wrote:

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Hi Andreas,

Thanks for your reply and your attention. Actually it seems that the way ConTeXt mkiv writes informations to the SyncTeX file has changed and the way it works i snot completely dependable. For instance sometimes the following

\starttext \input knuth.tex \stoptex

results in a PDF which, when clicked on with a modifier key (Command on Mac OS X) opens the source file knuth.tex. But the following simple example

\starttext Hi there, can you show me this sentence in the source file? \stoptex

Does nothing at all…

So I am puzzled…

Did you actually forget a "t" at the end or did you just make an error when copy-pasting?

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