[texworks] Problem: % !TeX root = ../main.tex

[sjo]

Thanks Jonathan. Installing miktex 2.8 appears to solve the problem. Very nice!

Jon

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Jonathan Kew<jfkthame at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7 Sep 2009, at 21:05, sjo wrote:
>
>> I am using miktex.
>
> More precisely, are you using MikTeX 2.7? If so, you might like to try
> updating to 2.8; I believe there was a problem with the implementation of
> the synctex feature in the MikTeX 2.7 programs, which might explain your
> difficulties.
>
> JK
>
>> I have tried that and it sometimes work (partially,
>> i.e. it takes me to the head of the \input file but not to the actual
>> paragraph). Sometimes it will take me to the main text file.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Jon
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Alain Delmotte<esperanto at swing.be> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Coming back from EuroTeX2009.
>>>
>>> If you are working under Windows with mikTeX; you should add the .tex
>>> extension in the input command:
>>> \input{chapt2.tex}
>>>
>>> Alain
>>>
>>> sjo a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> The invocation of
>>>> % !TeX root = ../main.tex
>>>> in a /input subsection file works nicely to allow typesetting of a
>>>> subsection.
>>>>
>>>> However, the reverse direction from clicking on a pdf does not
>>>> reliably get you back to the equivalent position in the subsection
>>>> latex file.
>>>>
>>>> I am working in revision 404 and wondered if there is some workaround?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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