[OS X TeX] synctex

[Claus Gerhardt]

In view of the timing results I changed the time interval for Flashmode to 0.3 seconds.

Claus


On Mar 20, 2011, at 17:32, Claus Gerhardt wrote:

> Thanks Herb,
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> I overlooked this.
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> By the way, after transforming an Applescript that included all the my usual calls for a typesetting in TeXShop (saving, refreshpdf ,etc.) I could time it in the Terminal. Below are the results and the corresponding ones for straight pdftex calls (note all pdftexc alls included the synctex option):
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> (1) A 64p. document
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> (a) Applescript
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> real	0m1.163s
> user	0m0.829s
> sys	0m0.077s
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> (b) Straight pdftex
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> real	0m0.834s
> user	0m0.777s
> sys	0m0.040s
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> (2) 1 p. document
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> (a) Applescript
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> real	0m0.576s
> user	0m0.347s
> sys	0m0.065s
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> (b) Straight pdftex
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> real	0m0.344s
> user	0m0.277s
> sys	0m0.032s
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> Running the Applescript on the same file I couldn't detect a difference RAM vs. hard disk, though the results where actually written to the hard disk at least the tex file had been saved.
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> straight pdftex calls.
> On Mar 20, 2011, at 16:30, Herbert Schulz wrote:
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>> On Mar 20, 2011, at 10:15 AM, Claus Gerhardt wrote:
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>>> When timing some pdftex runs I noticed that the option --synctex=1 consumed on average 0.2 to 0.3 seconds, and furthermore, I noticed that this option is no longer necessary. Hence, I adjusted the shell scripts in Flashmode.
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>> Howdy,
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>> How did you come to the conclusion that the --synctex=1 option is not necessary if you want to sync between pdf and source? If I run pdflatex on a file without that option set no .synctex.gz file is created. It may be that TeXShop then resorts to a regular search which is not as accurate as one using synctex.
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>> Good Luck,
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>> Herb Schulz
>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
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