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On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 09:18:43AM +0100, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:07:54AM +0100, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> >> Hi
> >> 
> >> I am working on a longish document which will be converted to pdf, and I
> >> am doing debugging of scripts at the moment.
> >> 
> >> Therefore I export the document to pdf, and look for errors there. Now I
> >> have to find the corresponding section in the org file - possible, but
> >> tedious.
> >> 
> >> Would it be possibler to include reverse-lookup in org, so that I click
> >> in the pdf, and the cursor jumps to the position in the org document? I
> >> really like this feature when e.g. using LyX. 
> >> 
> >> I have no idea how this could be implemented and if this would be
> >> difficult, but I think this could be a useful feature for longer documents.
> >
> > I think this is only possible with synctex.  See this thread:
> > <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/78111>
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> 
> Yes - but is there any progress to get it working? The file is not
> included in the contrib directory.

In another thread Aaron says he does not use it regularly, and finds the
solution too "fiddly".  I guess that would mean there has been no more
progress on this.

-- 
Suvayu

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