Re: Failed to skip from chapter tex file to master pdf file.

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Sun, Jul 11, 2021 at 4:19 AM Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Ubuntu 20.04, I compiled this project:
> > <https://gitlab.kwant-project.org/jbweston/thesis>, with xelatex +
> > xdvipdfmx via latexmk. When I open the tex master file in Emacs
> > integrated with the auctex and pdf-tools, I can skip from the pdf file
> > to the corresponding tex source file, but failed vice versa, as shown
> > below:
> >
> > ```
> > epdfinfo: Error opening
> > /home/werner/Public/hpc/tools/thesis/gitlab.kwant-project.org/jbweston/thesis.git/content/conclusion.pdf:No
> > such file or directory
>
> What would be the right filename?  The project looks like thesis.tex is
> the master file so I'd assume the pdf would be thesis.pdf and not
> conclusion.pdf which is just some included chapter in content/.
>

Yes. "thesis.tex" is the master file, and "thesis.pdf" is the
generated pdf file name.

> > I tried with the following two options, but all failed with the same
> > error mentioned above:
> >
> > (setq-default TeX-master nil)
> > or
> > (setq-default TeX-master 'dwim)
> >
> > Any hints for solving this problem?
>
> What are your TeX-master values?  It should be t in thesis.tex and
> "../thesis" in the sub-files in content/.  From the error above, I'd
> guess you've told AUCTeX that conclusion.tex was the master file and
> pdf-tools uses the value of TeX-master and thus assumes conclusion.pdf
> was the generated pdf.
>

See below:

$ tail -5 ./thesis.tex

%%% Local Variables:
%%% mode: latex
%%% TeX-master: t
%%% End:


$ tail -5 content/publications.tex

%%% Local Variables:
%%% mode: latex
%%% TeX-master: ../thesis
%%% End:

But still meet the error:

```
epdfinfo: Error opening
/home/werner/Public/hpc/tools/thesis/gitlab.kwant-project.org/jbweston/thesis.git/content/publications.pdf:No
such file or directory
(New file)
File mode specification error: (error epdfinfo: Error opening
/home/werner/Public/hpc/tools/thesis/gitlab.kwant-project.org/jbweston/thesis.git/content/publications.pdf:No
such file or directory)
```


> Bye,
> Tassilo
>

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Assoc. Prof. Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Theory and Simulation of Materials
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