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Revision as of 09:53, 27 November 2012
SyncTeX is a program that puts a lot of anchors in the output file that link to the corresponding position in the source file. This allows you to quickly jump from PDF to source. SyncTeX currently does not work with MKIV.
With a ConTeXt version > 2009.06.13 you can run
texexec --synctex jobname
that will create a file jobname.synctex.gz
.
The command
ctxtools --purge --all
or next run without --synctex will remove the file again.
This file can be used by your editor to display the proper file.
Editors & Viewers
TeXWorks
You may need to modify the command for executing ConTeXt first (you need to add --synctex
switch in preferences).
Evince
Evince (the GNOME PDF viewer) supports SyncTeX since version 2.32.0.
Skim.app & TextMate (Mac OS X)
In Skim/Preferences/Sync choose TextMate. The key combination
Shift + Apple + MouseClick
will bring you to the corresponding line in text editor.
In TextMate I have created my own command inside the ConTeXt bundle:
- Save: Nothing
- Command(s)
#!/bin/bash pdf=${TM_FILEPATH%tex}pdf /Applications/Skim.app/Contents/SharedSupport/displayline -r "$TM_LINE_NUMBER" "${pdf}"
- Input: None
- Output: Discard
- Activation: Key Equivalent (choose one; I used Ctrl+Alt+Apple+O)
- Scope Selector: text.tex.context
If you use Apple+R
for typesetting that needs to be modified as well (to account for --synctex switch).
Hopefully this functionality will become part of the official ConTeXt bundle one day. (The recipe given above is too specific. The code needs to be written to handle more different viewers and different locations, not only a single viewer at a specified location.)
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