GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 730248
Set-up SyncTeX page refers to nonexistent package
Last modified: 2018-05-22 15:35:47 UTC
The Set-up SyncTeX page says the following: "The following packages need to be installed in order to add support for SyncTeX: * texlive-extra-utils * gedit-plugins" I've checked four major distros, and texlive-extra-utils seems to only exist on Debian. On Fedora the correct package is texlive-synctex. Also, this page contains no instructions on how to install packages. I think the documentation should use PackageKit to install /usr/bin/synctex. Anything else would be necessarily distro-specific.
The texlive-extra-utils or anything else is not necessary... We should say something more "you need a PdfLatex distribution" that supports synctex. The easiest way of using the synchronization is with gedit + the gedit-synctex plugin. Please remark that we don't need /usb/bin/synctex neither. Evince has a synctex parser compiled into it. So, strictly speaking, nothing is needed from the Evince side. You need to bea ble to produce .pdf with corresponding .synctex files from your pdflatex distribution.
https://git.gnome.org/browse/evince/tree/help/C/synctex-support.page shouldn't be a simple <list>, but should define xmlns:e="http://projectmallard.org/experimental/" xmlns:if="http://projectmallard.org/experimental/if/" and use <if:choose xmlns:if="http://projectmallard.org/if/1.0/"> <if:when test="action:install"> <note style="info package"> <p><link action="install:texlive-extra-utils" href="https://some.fallback.url.link" style="button">Install texlive-extra-utils</link></p> </note> </if:when> </if:choose> which would be rendered in Yelp as a button that starts PackageKit.
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