Re: Forward and inverse search integration with latex-preview-pane.

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 4:57 PM Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I'm currently using auctex and latex-preview-pane,
> > <https://github.com/jsinglet/latex-preview-pane>, with the following
> > initialization configuration:
> >
> > (use-package latex-preview-pane
> >   :hook
> >   (TeX-mode . latex-preview-pane-mode)
> > )
> >
> > I want to know whether it's possible for me to enable forward and
> > inverse search  between the preview window of latex-preview-pane and
> > tex source code window.
>
> I don't use latex-preview-pane, but my understanding is that
> forward/backward search is not possible by design.  latex-preview-pane
> uses doc-view.el which converts pdf files to png images via ghostscript.
> From doc-view.el:
>
>     ;;; Commentary:
>
>     ;; DocView is a document viewer for Emacs.  It converts a number of
>     ;; document formats (including PDF, PS, DVI, Djvu and ODF files) to a
>     ;; set of PNG files, one PNG for each page, and displays the PNG
>     ;; images inside an Emacs buffer.
>
> I think pdf-tools is more appropriate for your requirements.
>
>     https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools
>
> AUCTeX has support for pdf-tools builtin.

Thank you for letting me know this. Then what's the corresponding
configuration options for this feature?

>
> Best, Arash

Regards
-- 
Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Theory and Simulation of Materials
Hebei Vocational University of Technology and Engineering
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