[Aquamacs-devel] LaTeX and Skim integration

[David Reitter]

I got annoyed with the "integration" Aquamacs (Emacs), its LaTeX mode
(configured AUCTeX) and Skim (the new PDFView) had to offer. Things
didn't work, not even with the official instructions from the Skim
Wiki, for various reasons on the part of Emacs and AUCTeX.

I've written some code so that jump back and forth between the PDF in
Skim and the .tex in Aquamacs. This works with distributed sources
(i.e. master files) and also with longlines mode. And it won't require
any configuration on the part of the user, apart from setting the Skim
preferences to use Aquamacs (there's a predefined setting for this).

To jump, you Shift-Apple-Click on the position from where you want to
jump, or you do C-c C-c J RET (J is for "JumpHere (Skim)"). This is
the same mouse click you use in Skim to go in the other direction.

A couple of questions for you:

- do you see a problem with enabling "server-mode" (i.e. doing `server-
start') when LaTeX mode is first entered?
This is necessary to be able to jump from Skim to Aquamacs, and users
would normally do it in their Preferences.el.

- should any other viewing application apart from Skim be supported in
this way?

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[Enrico Franconi]

On 15 Dec 2007, at 15:42, David Reitter wrote:

> - do you see a problem with enabling "server-mode" (i.e. doing

> `server-start') when LaTeX mode is first entered?

> This is necessary to be able to jump from Skim to Aquamacs, and
> users would normally do it in their Preferences.el.

I do it by default.

> - should any other viewing application apart from Skim be supported
> in this way?

For me, Skim is the only viewer.

-e.