#1222 "Go to source" does not work right with TikZ?

[Anonymous]

I am using TeXstudio 2.8.8 (hg 4829:72faf905aaf1) in Mac Yosemite 10.10.2.
The "go to source" does not always lead me to the right place in the source code when I draw pictures using TikZ. Sometimes it even leads me to the macro files of the TikZ packages which I am not supposed to see and revise. It works fine when a typesetted page does not contain picture wrapped by \begin{tikzpicture}\end{tikzpicture}. "Go to source" is my favorite function of TeXstudio. Hope it will be fixed soon. Thanks very much!!

[Tim Hoffmann]

Most likely, this is a limitation of synctex. I suspect that we won't be able to do anything about this. Anyway, if you provide a minimal example we can have a look.

[Tim Hoffmann]

From: [bugs:#1225]

Sorry that I do not know how to follow up ticket #1222. Allow me to create a new ticket: This is to provide a minimal example. It turns out that no \begin{tikzpicture}\end{tikzpicture} is needed in this minimal example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shadows}
\begin{document}
Test.
\end{document}

When I click "go to source" on "Test" in the preview window, a macro file called "pgflibraryfadings.code.tex" is loaded. Thanks for your help!

[Tim Hoffmann]

From: [bugs:#1225]

Work here as well. Can you please provide the following files:

• the .tex file with the above code

• the corresponding .syntex.gz file
• the corresponding .pdf

[Tim Hoffmann]

From [bugs:#1229]

Thanks for your quick responses!!

I am attaching the .tex, .synctex.gz, and the .pdf files. The three files (without recompiling) work fine with the (equivalent) "sync" function of TeXShop (3.50).

see attachments there.

[Tim Hoffmann]

Your synctex file contains multiple content sections. Except the last one, all of them refer to tag 94 which is pgflibraryfadings.code.tex. When I compile here, I do only get a single content section which corresponds to your last one (gotosource.tex). All the sections referfing to pgflibraryfadings.code.tex are not there. I have no idea where the additional content sections come from in your case. According to the synctex format definition, there should only be one content section: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man5/synctex.5.html

[Hsueh-I Lu]

Thanks very much for your time and efforts. I just updated all of my TeXLive-2014 packages and compiled the file again. The problem remains. I guess I will just temporarily switch to TeXShop (although I do like TeXStudio better) for the paper that I am working on. Thanks again!!

[Hsueh-I Lu]

I just changed the default compiler from pdflatex to xelatex and then everything functioned perfectly!! Thanks!!

[Herbert Meier]

I have the same problem. I can also reproduce the problem from the snippet posted above and compiled via lualatex (texlive 2018).

[Herbert Meier]

Addendum: I stumbled upon this https://github.com/jlaurens/synctex/issues/2 does this have anything to do with frontend (texstudio) or the compiler (lualatex)?