Add option -synctex to pdftex(1)

Hilmar Preuße <hille42-S0/[email protected]> Fri, 2 Aug 2019 11:14:18 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.tex.pdftex
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi,

not sure if this is the correct mailing list.

In [1] a user complained that the manual page of pdftex does not mention
the option -synctex. Attached is a little patch, which fixes the glitch,
please consider to add it to the manual page.

Thanks,
  Hilmar

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/772928
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synctex_pdftex_man.patch (text/plain, 805 B)

Index: texlive-bin/texk/web2c/man/pdftex.man
===================================================================
--- texlive-bin.orig/texk/web2c/man/pdftex.man	2019-07-05 13:07:55.356120065 +0200
+++ texlive-bin/texk/web2c/man/pdftex.man	2019-08-01 14:40:56.094286543 +0200
@@ -301,6 +301,11 @@
 .I PDF
 mode.
 .TP
+.BI -synctex \ NUMBER
+generate SyncTeX data for previewers according to bits of NUMBER. See the
+.I synctex
+manual page for details.
+.TP
 .BI -translate-file \ tcxname
 Use the
 .I tcxname
@@ -316,6 +321,9 @@
 .TP
 .B -version
 Print version information and exit.
+.TP
+.B -8bit
+make all characters printable by default.
 .\"=====================================================================
 .SH ENVIRONMENT
 See the Kpathsea library documentation (e.g., the `Path specifications'

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