Re: synctex issue

Hi, Jim—

Thank you for your help.

The TeXShop engine for luametatex is LMTX and it  contains:
mtxrun --script context --synctex "$1" --autogenerate --file-line-error --directives="system.showerror" --autopdf  

I have limited experience with the command line, so I may have misunderstood you in the following.  

When I run:
% cd Aestimatio_ns_v05
and then
% synctex edit -o 50:300:300:prd_Aestimatio-05.pdf
I get:

% synctex edit -o 50:30o:30o:prd_Aestimatio-05.pdf
This is SyncTeX command line utility, version 1.2
SyncTeX ERROR: No SyncTeX available for prd_Aestimatio-05.pdf
usage: synctex <subcommand> [options] [args]
Synchronize TeXnology command-line client, version 1.17

With 
% mtxrun --script synctex --report --page=50  --x=300 --y=300 --tolerance=9999 prd_Aestimatio-05.synctex

I get
mtx-synctex     | invalid synctex log file 'prd_Aestimatio-05.synctex'

In both instances, the file "prd_Aestimatio-05.synctex" is in the same directory and it has content. 

What is puzzling is that synctex does work for all cases except for that from PDF file to one of a number of souurce files.

All best,
Alan

> On Apr 9, 2026, at 12:34, Jim <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Apr  9, 2026 at 11:25 (-0400), Alan Bowen wrote:
> 
>> Hi—
> 
>> I now have synctex working successfully for :
>> 	PDF output—> single source file
>> 	single source file—> PDF output
>> 	any one of many included source files—> PDF output.
> 
>> What I have yet to get is
>> 	PDF output—> one of many component files.
>> (This last promises to be very useful in editing my journal.)
> 
>> I have no idea how to troubleshoot this and so any advice or guidance will be gratefully received.
> 
>> I am running the latest ConTeXt ( ver: 2026.03.25) and the latest TeXShop (ver. 5.58 with the luametatex engine) on macOS 26.4
> 
> Hi Alan,
> 
> I use synctex a lot, and while I run into some issues which I'm currently
> trying to resolve, here's an example that I just tested that works for me
> to go to a component file
> 
>       $ synctex edit -o 48:85:76:introCTX_eng.pdf
>       This is SyncTeX command line utility, version 1.5
>       SyncTeX result begin
>       Output:introCTX_eng.pdf
>       Input:01_BodyMatter/b03_Commands.tex
>       Line:40
>       Column:-1
>       Offset:0
>       Context:
>       SyncTeX result end
> 
> It got the file correct, but the line number is wrong.
> 
> I have never used TeXShop, so I don't know how it gets its synctex into
> (i.e., internal library?
>       external synctex program?
>       mtxrun --script synctex ... ?
> )
> 
> I would suggest testing a command-line synctex program to see if your
> synctex file has the required info in it.
> 
> The syntax for the above "synctex edit" is
>        pdf-page:x-coord:y-coord:pdf-file.pdf
> and that assumes the synctex file is in the same directory.  If not there
> is another option needed.
> 
> mtxrun call from the command line is like
>     mtxrun --script synctex --report --page=48  --x=850 --y=1020 --tolerance=9999 introCTX_eng.synctex
> 
> I can't promise to be a while lot of help going forward, but I'm interested
> in knowing how well things work for you, so please report back to the list.
> 
>                                Jim
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