[OS X TeX] synching in TS 3.18

[Herbert Schulz]

On May 29, 2013, at 4:41 PM, "Nitecki, Zbigniew H." <Zbigniew.Nitecki at tufts.edu> wrote:

> I just downloaded TS 3.18 and am having some trouble synching (sometimes).
> I checked the info on the website that indicates what should appear in TexShop Preferences.
> The default button gave me what is expected in three of the windows, in the fourth is
> simpdftex latex --maxpfb --extratexopts "-file-line-error -synctex=1"
> 
> Synching works fine on a file I am currently using, but when I went back to a larger, older project (ongoing) for which I have the pdf file and the "master" source file opened, but the individual source files for sections are not, I got no reaction (I expected to get a locked source file--I haven't learned how to turn off the automatic locking--but at least I would know whit the relevant source file for that section is called).
> 

Howdy,

Without the synctex.gz file I'm not sure how TeXShop can figure out to which file in the project the particular text in the pdf file you Cmd-click on belongs. Of course I may be thinking of this incorrectly. Now that Search syncing is gone even with a single document pdf->tex syncing will not work without a synctex.gz file present.

> In the past I have not had a problem with accessing these source files via synching from the pdf even if they are not currently opened.
> ...

But the synctex.gz file must have been present? As I said above I'm not sure I understand how it can be done. But maybe I'm just not seeing how that can happen.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)