Re: [AUCTeX] Re: redefining PDF viewer

[Tassilo Horn]

Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Ralf,

>> I've tried it now with [X] Correlate I/O and [ ] Generate PDF output,
>> but neither forward nor backward search work.  C-c C-c View RET
>> doesn't change the page shown, and Shift-Leftclick in okular does
>> nothing.
>
> I'd only expect forward search to work anyway.  If it works depends on
> the methods for I/O correlation (if I just knew a better term for
> this) supported by Okular.  With the settings above it's likely that
> SyncTeX is used and if Okular does not support that together with DVI
> output, forward search will not work.

Indeed, there's a synctex file generated.

> You can enable source specials temporarily with `(setq
> TeX-source-correlate-method-active 'source-specials)' in case you want
> to try it.

I did, and using source-specials both forward as well as backward search
work perfectly with DVIs in Okular. :-)

Bye,
Tassilo