Re: synctex and TeXShop problem

[Ulrike Fischer <news3@nililand.de>]

Am Tue, 21 Nov 2017 14:15:02 +0100 schrieb Hans Hagen:


>> synctex fails with lualatex on windows too. And it fails with with
>> the luatex version 1.06 (which is now in miktex) but not with 1.04
>> (texlive).
>> 
>> I compared the synctex files of both and the problem is that the
>> link to the main tex file is missing at the start.
>> 
>> The synctex files refers to a lot positions in input 0 but the file
>> list starts with
>> 
>> Input:1:D:/MiKTeX2.9/tex/latex/base/article.cls
>> 
>> 
>> I added before this line
>> 
>> Input:0:G:/Z-Test/./test-utf8.tex
>> 
>> and then synchronization worked again. Imho this is a luatex bug.
>> 
>> (the texlive synctex starts with number 1 and not 0
>>   Input:1:G:/Z-Test/./test-utf8.tex)

> i noticed this 0 /1 iusue too but it was ok in old viewers so mayeb that 
> changed .. fwiw, nothing changed in luatex where we just take the syntex 
> code as-is ... actually in sumatra starting at 1 is the only thing that 
> works

I don't think that the 0/1 issue is a problem in itself -- but I
think that the change of the numbering system introduced the real
bug: That the line 

    Input:0:G:/Z-Test/./test-utf8.tex

is missing in the synctex file. 



-- 
Ulrike Fischer 
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/

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