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Bug 380008 - Support for forward search in DVI
Support for forward search in DVI
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 543503
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: backends
git master
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-11-28 03:44 UTC by Yevgen Muntyan
Modified: 2010-11-09 13:51 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
patch (3.42 KB, patch)
2006-11-28 07:50 UTC, Yevgen Muntyan 		none Details | Review

Description Yevgen Muntyan 2006-11-28 03:44:15 UTC 
Some DVI viewers provide "forward search" fucntionality - ability to jump to a place which corresponds to given line in source TeX file; this is an inverse thing for "inverse search", where you get to TeX file from DVI. This and inverse search is a must for editing TeX documents.

KDVI, for instance, provides this with
kdvi --unique file:blah.dvi#src:146blah.tex
which means "show the place in DVI file which corresponds to line 146 in blah.tex".
Comment 1 Yevgen Muntyan 2006-11-28 03:45:35 UTC 
This bug is a brother of #375539.
Comment 2 Yevgen Muntyan 2006-11-28 07:50:23 UTC 
Created attachment 77276 [details] [review]
patch

Attached patch draws source specials in DVI file. What's not clear is how to retrieve bounding boxes for those: you can see that mdvi gets us the bottom of the line, and we need the top of the line to be able to scroll to there or to click it with mouse or something. I could not find how to do it without modifying mdvi sources.
Comment 3 José Aliste 2010-09-12 16:24:43 UTC 
FYI, the latest version of Evince supports forward and backwardSearch using SyncTeX.
Comment 4 José Aliste 2010-11-09 13:27:03 UTC 
Yevgen, I am closing this as WONTFIX since there is already synctex support in evince, which is another method to support inverse and forward search in pdf and dvi LaTeX files.
Comment 5 José Aliste 2010-11-09 13:51:31 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 543503 ***