[macemacsjp-english 831] Re: PDF previewing of TeX code and forward search

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Kasper Daniel Hansen khans****@stat*****
Sat Jan 13 08:07:30 JST 2007


When I wrote CTRL+click below I meant CMD+click.

Kasper

On Jan 12, 2007, at 2:49 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:

> Hi
>
> There were quite a few posts in December on getting a good preview
> program to work for editing LaTeX documents, since Preview.app
> (amongst other things) do not automatically reload the pdf document
> when it is changed because of a recompilation of the latex code.
> Suggestions of other programs were Acrobat Reader and Texniscope.
>
> I have looked at a new application based in part on Texniscope:
> PDFView ( http://pdfview.sourceforge.net/index.html ).
>
> Amongst other things I like is
> - Automatic reload of the page when the pdf source changes
> - I like the keyboard navigation better (space jumps one viewing unit
> at a time)
> - Automatic maximization for better readability (after having tried
> this for a few days, this is a killer feature in my opinion: I read
> quite a lot of pdf documents, and this has just made it so much  
> better)
>
> I have managed to get PDFView to work with AUCTeX, providing both
> forward search (when doing C-c C-c View in AUCTeX, PDFView changes to
> the line in the pdf document corresponding to the line I was editing)
> and inverse search (When you CTRL+click in the pdf document, Emacs
> jumps to the relevant place in the source code).
>
> My preference is to have the PDF opening (from Emacs) to be done in
> the background, but I want Emacs to get the focus when I CTRL+click
> in PDFView.
>
> So here are the steps you need to take (assuming Emacs.app and
> PDFVIew.app is installed in /Applications):
>
> 1) Customizing PDFView: in the LaTeX pref. panel, choose "custom"
> under pdfsync preset. The command is
>    /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient
> and the argument is
>    --no-wait +%line %file
>
> (I have emailed the author to ask him to include this as a standard
> preset in next version)
>
> Note: I had to click around a bit in the pref. panel before I got
> PDFView to accept my entries. I think there is a small bug regarding
> the automatic saving of preferences (also reported to the author)
>
> 2) Customizing Emacs. Add the following to your .emacs
>
> (server-start)
>
> (defun raise-emacs-on-aqua()
>    (shell-command
>     "osascript -e 'tell application \"Emacs\" to activate'"))
> (add-hook 'server-switch-hook 'raise-emacs-on-aqua)
>
> (require 'tex-site)
> (add-hook 'TeX-mode-hook
> 	  (lambda ()
> 	    (add-to-list 'TeX-output-view-style
> 			 '("^pdf$" "."
> 			   "/Applications/PDFView.app/Contents/MacOS/gotoline.sh %n %
> (OutFullPath)"))
> 	    (add-to-list 'TeX-expand-list
> 			 '("%(OutFullPath)" (lambda nil
> 					      (expand-file-name
> 					       (TeX-view-output-file)
> 					       (TeX-master-directory)))))
> ))
>
> The first line is to get inverse search to work. The next group of
> lines is to make Emacs gain focus when you do inverse search, and the
> last group of lines (beginning with (require 'tex-site) is to get
> forward search to work with AUCTeX.
>
> 3) Add
> \usepackage{pdfsync}
> to your LaTeX code and use pdflatex to compile it (on my systems the
> latex command is just an alias for pdflatex)
>
> Cheers, Kasper
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