[NTG-context] Re: Most recent context doesn't like synctex?

[Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>]

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

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