Bug 382011

Summary:	SyncTeX 2017 upgrade
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	jlaurens <laurens.tribune>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	aacid, m.weghorn, null, simonandric5
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description jlaurens 2017-07-05 11:26:39 UTC

Please find at

https://github.com/jlaurens/synctex/tree/2017

the pre release version of the synctex parser. It would be great if you could test it ASAP and hopefully give me your agreement to release that code.

Read the synctex_parser_readme.md for very minor upgrading instructions.

Thanks

Jérôme

Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2017-07-29 16:08:22 UTC

I'm unsure at what you mean with "give me your agreement to release that code.".

Can you clarify?

Comment 2 null 2017-08-30 06:23:06 UTC

Hi Jérôme,

thanks for the heads-up. We now have a review request ready at https://phabricator.kde.org/D7594. Feel free to have a look and comment here (or over in Phabricator if you have a KDE identity account) with any questions, concerns or suggestions you have.

In terms of testing your pre-release code, I can report that I could integrate it in Okular without major problems (we still carry some patches to make it compile without errors and with less warnings, though). Superficial testing of the functionality seems fine, but I am not able to do any thorough tests (we will see what happens once we ship to our userbase).

For Okular, the only recent type of synctex-related problem is bug 383915. It seems like recent TeXLive generates backwards-incompatible synctex files which crash the very old synctex 1.16 parser in Okular.

Comment 3 null 2017-09-12 19:58:32 UTC

D7594 has now landed in Okular's master branch, therefore we can consider this bug/wish as done.

If there are any other questions/comments/requests regarding SyncTeX in Okular, do not hesitate to comment here or open a new bug. Thanks again for reaching out.