Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Peter and all others, > > On Oct 31 2005, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > I am CC'ing this to interested parties, including > > debian-emacsen@lists.debian.org for discussion. > > Nice. I'm including debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org also, as they > may have some insight in the situation. > > > Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As you probably know, Emacs is used quite a lot by people that use LaTeX > > > and in the usual workflow of generating a LaTeX document, one usually > > > goes through the compilation of the source and then sees the output > > > using a variety of modes, the most common of which is seeing a DVI > > > output file. > > > > > > Since LaTeX supports source specials and the xdvi in current Debian > > > versions support forward and backward searching, it would be a very good > > > addition if the file xdvi-search.el could be added to the package > > > emacs-goodies-el. > > > > > > The xdvi-search.el file can be obtained from: > > > <http://xdvi.sourceforge.net/xdvi-search.el>. > > > > Thanks. This would be useful to me also as I also use LaTeX. > > > > I just tried this at work on sarge and xdvi wasn't compiled with this > > support, so it didn't work. I'll try it at home on unstable. > > Humm, this is actually quite strange, since I was using this > Forward/Backward thing with sarge when it wasn't released (I'm always > tracking testing, BTW). > > Do you use AUCTeX? Based on the fact that you included them on the CC, > I'd assume that you do. With current AUCTeX, you have to compile the > file with source specials and this can be achieved with C-c C-t C-s.
Thanks. I had misundertood the error. I didn't realise that the dvi file could be built with this feature included or not. It does works after all. > > I wonder if users would be better served if this were included either > > in auctex or in some part of tetex (perhaps tetex-extra). So my > > questions for everybody are: > > I think that forward/backward searching is independent of the use of > AUCTeX (despite the fact that heavy LaTeX users use AUCTeX already, > probably). > > I don't think that Frank Küster & Co. would like to include it in > tetex-extra (I think that they would prefer it in an agnostic way, since > Debian will soon have both teTeX and TeX Live on its repository). > > It might be a possibility to have xdvi-search.el on tex-common, though > (which is the basic infra-structure package for the TeX distributions in > Debian from now on). > > > - Which package do you think xdvi-search.el should be added to? > > I'd still say that emacs-goodies-el is the strongest candidate of it > all, but having it in tex-common might make sense (unless others are > vehemently opposed to that). > > > - If you maintain tetex or auctex, do you think it should o in your > > package? Are you willing to add it? > > Whatever is the decision, I think that it deserves to be more > well-known for Emacs users. > > Oh, BTW, if I am not mistaken, kdvi (the dvi previewer for KDE) even has > some tips and long explanations on how kdvi supports source specials. I'm perfectly willing to add it to emacs-goodies-el and remove it later if it gets added to tex-common. Thanks! Peter
