From: Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>
To: Brett Viren <bv@bnl.gov>
Cc: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Reverse lookup from pdf to org?
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:12:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2d2h8yphn.fsf@krugs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ir4ppladntk.fsf@lycastus.phy.bnl.gov> (Brett Viren's message of "Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:29:27 -0400")
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Brett Viren <bv@bnl.gov> writes:
> 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:
I like the idea of reverse links - could be a nice addition when
enabled.
>
> 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?
But jumping to the .org file would be the aim - right?
>
> 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.
That would not be a problem, as this would primarily be a debugging /
draft feature.
>
> Chance of success: 10%
I guess higher?
Rainer
>
> -Brett.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-27 9:12 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
2014-03-27 9:12 ` Rainer M Krug [this message]
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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