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From: Brett Viren <bv@bnl.gov>
To: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Reverse lookup from pdf to org?
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:29:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ir4ppladntk.fsf@lycastus.phy.bnl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871txqgla1.fsf@alphaville.bos.redhat.com> (Nick Dokos's message of "Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:56:06 -0400")

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Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> writes:

> One more (half-)possibility is as follows: produce the tex file and
> compile it not with pdflatex, but with plain latex, producing a DVI
> file. Passing the -src option to the latex invocation inserts "source
> specials" into the DVI file that some DVI viewers (in particular, xdvi)
> can interpret to jump back from the DVI view to the (approximate)
> corresponding location in the tex file:
>
>       latex --shell-escape -src foo.tex
>       xdvi foo.dvi

Okay, here is a crazy idea.  Maybe one can use hyperref and place \url{}
and/or \href{}{} macros in the org file.  These will turn into clickable
links in the final PDF.  In them place URLs that look like:

  file:///path/to/foo.tex.orglink?line=42

And then use .mailcap (or whatever MIME config that xpdf/evince/etc
honors) to map the .orglink extension to a script that parses the URL
(does that full URL get passed?) and invokes emacs to open foo.tex at
line 42?

If that much can be made to work (big if!) I see one problem in that the
/path/to will break if the source is moved.

Chance of success: 10%

-Brett.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-25 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-25 10:07 Reverse lookup from pdf to org? Rainer M Krug
2014-03-25 13:11 ` Suvayu Ali
2014-03-27  8:18   ` Rainer M Krug
2014-03-27  8:59     ` Suvayu Ali
2014-03-27  9:04       ` Rainer M Krug
2014-03-25 17:17 ` Brett Viren
2014-03-25 18:56 ` Nick Dokos
2014-03-25 20:29   ` Brett Viren [this message]
2014-03-27  9:12     ` Rainer M Krug
2014-03-27 14:30       ` Brett Viren
2014-03-27 14:43         ` Rainer M Krug
2014-03-27 14:53           ` Nick Dokos
2014-03-27 15:00             ` Rainer M Krug
2014-03-28  4:49           ` Marcin Borkowski

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