LAURENS Jérôme wrote:
Le 10 févr. 08 à 20:22, Hans Hagen a écrit :
LAURENS Jérôme wrote:
I forgot to say that the command line option is now -synctex=1 and the primitive is \synctex the primitive probably will be changes into something \pdfsynchronize=<number>
I don't think this is a good idea because synctex does not use any pdf related feature, unlike former pdfsync. It would be misleading to include "pdf" in the name. Moreover, one can see in synctex a common technology shared by all tex.web based engines, including xetex.
I agree that a name like \pdfsynchronize is more user friendly, but the advantage of synctex is that it can also be used in the CLI... as I said the string "synctex" is also some kind of keyword.
the policy for pdftex is not to introduce new primitives unless preceded by \pdf ... (not that i care that much because macro packages can deal with it but for latex it was considered a problem as there are many packages out there we don't know of), so such is life ... anyhow, even if we use a non prefixed primitive, i'd like a more verbose one \synchronizeoutputstate or, actually, it belongs to the trace family \traceoutputpositions or so; since we're talking tex here, the tex in \synctex is somewhat strange; of course you can call your mechanism as such, but that;s a different matter Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------