[tex-live] Multiple files and synctex not working

Ulrike Fischer news3 at nililand.de
Wed Apr 26 16:49:08 CEST 2017


Am Wed, 26 Apr 2017 10:47:04 +0200 schrieb Pierre Marchand:

> Dear all,
> 
> Sorry if my message does not belong here but I have no idea where to report this bug. 
> 
> I have an issue with synctex and working with multiple files. More precisely, I have a main file main.tex and three files (one for each chapter) chapter1.tex, chapter2.tex and chapter3.tex. I use "include" in main.tex to add the chapters to my pdf. I have also several figures in my first chapter, they are tikz pictures that I define in separate files (figure.tikz for example) that I put in chapter1.tex with "input".
> 
> Doing this, synctex does not work in the third chapter, but it works fine in the first and second one (I tried it on macOS 10.12.4 using texshop and Atom+Skim+latexmk). 
> 
> It seems to be a known bug : for examples, see https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/t34931/texworks-synctex-works-only-partially
> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/350266/texmaker-inverse-search-error?noredirect=1&lq=1
> 
> But the answers do not work for me. Is there someone maintaining synctex to whom I can report this bug ?

I reported one bug 6 weeks ago (I don't know if your problem is
caused by it too):

https://www.tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2017-March/039781.html
https://github.com/jlaurens/synctex/issues/3

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Ulrike Fischer 
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/



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