As far as I know, It is not possible to reverse search from a pdf file. You need to use the dvi, which supports marks known as dvi specials. I don't maintain my patches anymore.
Best regards, João. On Tuesday 24 February 2009 15:54:01 Pavel Sanda wrote: > Stefano Franchi wrote: > > On Tuesday 24 February 2009 11:42:30 Pavel Sanda wrote: > > > Stefano Franchi wrote: > > > > I am starting to work on the final editing of a long manuscript and > > > > I would very much appreciate the option to click on a page in the pdf > > > > viewer app and jump directly to the corresponding block of text in > > > > the source file. > > > > > > > > I do not think this is possible with LyX, presently---am I wrong? > > > > > > http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94 > > > > > > pavel > > > > Thanks Pavel. > > > > If I understood the bugzilla exchange correctly, the situation is: > > there was very lenghty discussion > http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg87046.html > from which is seems everybody wanted it in the tree so it seems like > a mystery its not already there :) > > > 1. Reverse seaerching (I guess that's the term) works from kdvi to a > > Latex file opened in a standard editor > > > > 2. Georg Baum provided a patch that would make it work from kdvi to LyX, > > but the patch never made into released version of Lyx, for reasons > > unknown (as of 2/24/09) > > > > > > So there is a workaround, and there is hope! > > i just tried to use this patch, unfortunately most of the code moved around > so its not easy to patch it again. on the other hand, the changes which are > needed look like more of mechanical work then some actual rewrite... > > CC-ing to Georg, Joao and lyx-devel. > may be somebody knows what was the problem. > > pavel
