Re: synctex and TeXShop problem

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 11/21/2017 2:21 PM, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> 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.
ok, we have a fix for that (but it doesn't explain why context generated 
files make texshop unhappy)


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