[Tex/LaTex] Configure forward search with Texmaker + SumatraPDF

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Texmaker has a Built-in pdf viewer which supports synctex forward/inverse search out of the box. This Built-in viewer can be displayed embedded or in a separate window, external viewers always have a separate window. As I have two screens, I am using the two-window layout.

Now I would like to switch to SumatraPDF as external viewer, but cannot find how to configure Texmaker to get Forward search working.
I have filed a feature request to add that information to the Texmaker documentation already. Does someone here know how to do it? Probably using some DDE command…

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It seems that Texmaker does not allow DDE commands, but since version 1.9 SumatraPDF supports forward search not only via DDE commands, but also via command line switches. Since version 3.2.1 Texmaker has all variables that are needed to use forward search. These are

% for the basename of the master file (without path and without extension),
! for the full path to the directory where the master document resides,
# for the basename of the currently active file (without path and without extension) and
@ for the line number.

So usually the following should work:

""C:/Program Files (x86)/SumatraPDF/SumatraPDF.exe" -reuse-instance "!/%.pdf" -forward-search "!/#.tex" @

This will fail when including from a subdirectory. A workaround is to add the subDirName to the path manually:

""C:/Program Files (x86)/SumatraPDF/SumatraPDF.exe" -reuse-instance "!/%.pdf" -forward-search "!/subDirName/#.tex" @

But then the subDirName should be identical in all projects, so this is more a workaround than a real solution.

Here is a screenshot of my Texmaker configuration: enter image description here

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It's much of a comment rather than a full pledged answer here by Matth

Double use of -reuse-instance was not needed to resolve your problem
Starting from Version 3.2.1 "- an additional parameter (#) for the current file name is available for the commands (required for pdf synchronization with the sumatra pdf viewer)"

You have missed # it your command line arguments, which was mentioned by Matth

"C:/Programme/SumatraPDF/SumatraPDF.exe" -reuse-instance "%.pdf" -forward-search "#.tex" @

Hence forward-inverse search works when you remove multiple -reuse-instance and replace the % to #

Note: % is for filename without extension. For forward-inverse interaction # takes over the precedence. Both might work along as # is used for #.tex.

[Tex/LaTex] Set up SyncTeX with Emacs DocView

You can use pdf-tools. It adds support for forward and inverse search using synctex. Quoting the commentary in one of the synctex related functions:

Correlate a PDF position with the TeX file.
\\<pdf-sync-minor-mode-map>
This works via SyncTeX, which means the TeX sources need to have
been compiled with `--synctex=1'. In AUCTeX this can be done by
setting `TeX-source-correlate-method' to 'synctex \(before AUCTeX
is loaded\) and enabling `TeX-source-correlate-mode'.

Then \\[pdf-sync-mouse-goto-tex] in the PDF buffer will open the
corresponding TeX location.

If AUCTeX is your preferred tex-mode, this library arranges to
bind `pdf-sync-tex-display-pdf-key' \(the default is `C-c C-g'\)
to `pdf-sync-display-pdf' in `TeX-source-correlate-map'. This
function displays the PDF page corresponding to the current
position in the TeX buffer. This function only works together
with AUCTeX.

After setting up AUCTex, yous should be able to forward search with C-c C-g and reverse search by double clicking on the pdf in doc-view (with pdf-tools enabled; i.e. invoke pdf-tools-enable first).

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