On Jul 5, 2009, at 6:11 PM, Siegel Anno wrote: > On 05.07.2009, at 17:15, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > >> Do you have an (old) example.pdfsync file in the same directory? In >> that case, Skim will pick up this file rather than the synctex file, >> and may fail because it's not valid anymore. > > I had variously only the pdfsync file or both. Both /should/ have > been > up-to-date in the latter case. (I mistook synctex as some kind of > mode > of pdfsync.)
If they're both up-to-date it should also just work, but it may not be obvious which one it will use (that's an implementation detail that I even should look up). However, in any case, synctex is much better in many ways, you simply should not use pdfsync anymore. > >> For me, with just synctex (see also below) this example works as >> expected. > > So it does, for me too. Thank you! That's the last bit that'll allow > me to keep my beloved vim for latex work :) > >> You should use either PDFSync or SyncTeX, not both. You sort of use > > That's what I've learned. Thanks for the lesson. > >> both in example.tex, though the PDFSync part does not work for me >> because you use the wrong casing for the file name. > > Ah, the curses of a case-insensitive file system. It /seemed/ > alright here. > I don't really think it's the case sensitivity of the file system per se, it also depends on the (tex) program, I think. At least, for me PDFSync does not work with your file even though I have a case insensitive file system. > So it wouldn't be unheard of for Skim to silently do nothing in a > dilemma > (instead of giving an error message)? Not complaining, just getting > used > to the tool. Indeed, Skim just does nothing. For this case I really think an alert is annoying, and even a beep doesn't work well. One problem is that the sync works delayed (because the initial parsing is relatively slow). And a beep or alert that shows after some delay is just confusing, because it has no clear relation to the event. > I've been through quite a few PDF readers for OS X these last days. > Skim > is definitely my favorite so far. Extensive osascript capabilites > count, > but an active user community (in form of this list) counts much more. > > Sorry for rambling and thanks again, > > Anno > You're welcome, Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
