Kasper Daniel Hansen
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Sat Jan 13 07:49:19 JST 2007
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
