Re: [Vim-latex-devel] Inverse and Forward Search : This is not what I expected

[Srinath A. <sri...@gm...>]

Hi

On 2/1/06, ahmet nurlu <ahm...@ya...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
[snip]

> When I make a forward search in WinEdt, YAP was
> displaying the position roughly corresponding to your
> current position in YAP. It  points the corresponding
> line and puts a circle on the line(one line below or
> above of it at the worst). Inverse searching in  YAP
> works almost the same: When you initiate  the inverse
> search from the YAP previewer, the editor displays the
> corresponding source line in a small margin of error.
>
> In my Debian/Sarge system, I use TeTeX(ver:3.0.13) and
> Xdvi(ver:22.84.9). When I initiate a forward search
> from gvim, Xdvi draws a rectangle around the paragraph
> in which the corresponding line in the source file
> belongs to. So it is a big margin of error. Inverse
> search works with the same big margin of error. It
> doesn't matter where you click in a paragraph in Xdvi,
> it always points the begining of a paragraph in the
> corresponding source file.
>

This a difference between MikTeX and teTeX as you suspect. There is
unfortunately nothing which I know of which makes the search in teTeX
perform as well/better than MiKTeX. I haven't looked too closely at it
though. If you find a solution to this, I'd be glad to know.

Thanks
Srinath