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This file is part of the __SyncTeX__ package.
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[//]: # (Version: 1.21)
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[//]: # (Date: Sun Oct 15 15:09:55 UTC 2017)
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* Changes in version `1.21`
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* Display query returns more results (as much as `1.18`)
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* Remove a `\` character from the name of 2 test files.
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* Change variable name `class` to `class_` because the former is a reserved keyword in C++.
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* Adding a more portable unused variable management.
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* Various cosmetic changes in the source code, including explicit declaration of `void` in forward function declaration.
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* Changes in version `1.20`
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One bug fixed in some initialization and different syntax to make some compilers happy.
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* Changes in version `1.19`
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A long standing bug affecting only pdftex has been fixed by adding support to pdf forms. As a side effect, the synchronization algorithm gains in accuracy for all the engines, especially from pdf to source. Of course, there is a small cost in both memory footprint and computational time, but none is noticeable.
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Some technical changes in the API.
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* more consistent type naming convention
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* `_s` suffix for struct's
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* `_p` suffix for pointers
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* `_t` suffix for standard types
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* `_f` suffix for functions...
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thus `synctex_node_t` has become `synctex_node_p`.
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* supplemental argument in `synctex_display_query`. Set `page_hint` to the currently displayed pdf page number (0 based). If this info is not available, set `page_hint` to 0, it corresponds to the old behaviour.
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* rename `synctex_next_result` to `synctex_scanner_next_result`
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* additional `synctex_parser_private.h` header where
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more API are exposed. For an advanced usage only (eg parallel synchronizations).
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* `SYNCTEX_NO_UPDATER` preprocessor macro to deactivate some code useless to frontends.
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The *Synchronization TeXnology* named __SyncTeX__ is a new feature
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of recent __TeX__ engines designed by Jérôme Laurens.
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It allows to synchronize between input and output, which means to
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navigate from the source document to the typeset material and vice versa.
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Browse the source code for more information.
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This package is mainly for developers, it contains the following files:
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* `synctex_parser_readme.md` (this file)
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* `synctex_parser_version.txt`
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* `synctex_parser_utils.c`
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* `synctex_parser_utils.h`
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* `synctex_parser_local.h`
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* `synctex_parser_advanced.h`
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The file you are reading contains more informations about the __SyncTeX__ parser history.
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All stable sources are available from [TeXLive repository](http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/web2c/synctexdir/).
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Latest development sources are available from GitHub.
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Please notice that due to the complexity of the TeXLive TeX distribution, there might be some delay before synchronization occurs between various repositories.
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In order to support __SyncTeX__ in a viewer, it is sufficient to include
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in the source the files `synctex_parser.c` and `synctex_parser_utils.c`.
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The synctex parser usage is described in `synctex_parser.h` header file.
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More advanced usage is found in `synctex_parser_advanced.h`
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The other files are used by tex engines or by the synctex command line utility:
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This is version 1, which refers to the synctex output file format.
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The files are identified by a build number.
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In order to help developers to automatically manage the version and build numbers
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and download the parser only when necessary, the `synctex_parser_version.txt`
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is an ASCII text file just containing the current version and build numbers eg `1.19`.
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* 1.1: Thu Jul 17 09:28:13 UTC 2008
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- First official version available in TeXLive 2008 DVD.
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Unfortunately, the backwards synchronization is not working properly mainly for ConTeXt users, see below.
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* 1.2: Tue Sep 2 10:28:32 UTC 2008
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- Correction for ConTeXt support in the edit query.
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The previous method was assuming that TeX boxes do not overlap,
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which is reasonable for LaTeX but not for ConTeXt.
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This assumption is no longer considered.
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* 1.3: Fri Sep 5 09:39:57 UTC 2008
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- Local variable "read" renamed to "already_read" to avoid conflicts.
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- "inline" compiler directive renamed to "SYNCTEX_INLINE" for code support and maintenance
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- _synctex_error cannot be inlined due to variable arguments (thanks Christiaan Hofman)
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- Correction in the display query, extra boundary nodes are used for a more precise forwards synchronization
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* 1.4: Fri Sep 12 08:12:34 UTC 2008
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- For an unknown reason, the previous version was not the real 1.3 (as used in iTeXMac2 build 747).
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As a consequence, a crash was observed.
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- Some typos are fixed.
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* 1.6: Mon Nov 3 20:20:02 UTC 2008
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- The bug that prevented synchronization with compressed files on windows has been fixed.
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- New interface to allow system specific customization.
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- Note that some APIs have changed.
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* 1.8: Mer 8 jul 2009 11:32:38 UTC
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Note that version 1.7 was delivered privately.
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- bug fix: synctex was causing a memory leak in pdftex and xetex, thus some processing speed degradation
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- bug fix: the synctex command line tool was broken when updating a .synctex file
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- enhancement: better accuracy of the synchronization process
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- enhancement: the pdf output file and the associated .synctex file no longer need to live in the same directory.
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The new -d option of the synctex command line tool manages this situation.
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This is handy when using something like tex -output-directory=DIR ...
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* 1.9: Wed Nov 4 11:52:35 UTC 2009
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- OutputDebugString replaced by OutputDebugStringA to deliberately disable unicode preprocessing
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- New conditional created because OutputDebugStringA is only available since Windows 2K professional
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* 1.10: Sun Jan 10 10:12:32 UTC 2010
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- Bug fix in synctex_parser.c to solve a synchronization problem with amsmath's gather environment.
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Concerns the synctex tool.
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* 1.11: Sun Jan 17 09:12:31 UTC 2010
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- Bug fix in synctex_parser.c, function synctex_node_box_visible_v: 'x' replaced by 'y'.
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Only 3rd party tools are concerned.
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* 1.12: Mon Jul 19 21:52:10 UTC 2010
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- Bug fix in synctex_parser.c, function __synctex_open: the io_mode was modified even in case of a non zero return,
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causing a void .synctex.gz file to be created even if it was not expected. Reported by Marek Kasik concerning a bug on evince.
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* 1.13: Fri Mar 11 07:39:12 UTC 2011
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- Bug fix in synctex_parser.c, better synchronization as suggested by Jan Sundermeyer (near line 3388).
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- Stronger code design in synctex_parser_utils.c, function _synctex_get_name (really neutral behavior).
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Only 3rd party tools are concerned.
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* 1.14: Fri Apr 15 19:10:57 UTC 2011
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- taking output_directory into account
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- Replaced FOPEN_WBIN_MODE by FOPEN_W_MODE when opening the text version of the .synctex file.
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- Merging with LuaTeX's version of synctex.c
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* 1.15: Fri Jun 10 14:10:17 UTC 2011
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This concerns the synctex command line tool and 3rd party developers.
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TeX and friends are not concerned by these changes.
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- Bug fixed in _synctex_get_io_mode_name, sometimes the wrong mode was returned
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- Support for LuaTeX convention of './' file prefixing
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* 1.16: Tue Jun 14 08:23:30 UTC 2011
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This concerns the synctex command line tool and 3rd party developers.
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TeX and friends are not concerned by these changes.
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- Better forward search (thanks Jose Alliste)
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- Support for LuaTeX convention of './' file prefixing now for everyone, not only for Windows
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* 1.17: Fri Oct 14 08:15:16 UTC 2011
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This concerns the synctex command line tool and 3rd party developers.
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TeX and friends are not concerned by these changes.
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- synctex_parser.c: cosmetic changes to enhance code readability
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- Better forward synchronization.
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The problem occurs for example with LaTeX \item command.
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The fact is that this command creates nodes at parse time but these nodes are used only
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after the text material of the \item is displayed on the page. The consequence is that sometimes,
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forward synchronization spots an irrelevant point from the point of view of the editing process.
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This was due to some very basic filtering policy, where a somehow arbitrary choice was made when
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many different possibilities where offered for synchronisation.
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Now, forward synchronization prefers nodes inside an hbox with as many acceptable spots as possible.
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This is achieved with the notion of mean line and node weight.
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- Adding support for the new file naming convention with './'
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- function `synctex_ignore_leading_dot_slash_in_path replaces` `synctex_ignore_leading_dot_slash`
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- function `_synctex_is_equivalent_file_name` is more permissive
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Previously, the function synctex_scanner_get_tag would give an answer only when
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the given file name was EXACTLY one of the file names listed in the synctex file.
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The we added some changes accepting for example 'foo.tex' instead of './foo.tex'.
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Now we have an even looser policy for dealing with file names.
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If the given file name does not match exactly one the file names of the synctex file,
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then we try to match the base names. If there is only one match of the base names,
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then it is taken as a match for the whole names.
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The base name is defined as following:
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/my///.////foo => foo
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/my//.foo => /my//.foo`
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* 1.17: Tue Mar 13 10:10:03 UTC 2012
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- minor changes, no version changes
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- syntax man pages are fixed as suggested by M. Shimata
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see mail to tex-live@tug.org titled "syntax.5 has many warnings from groff" and "syntax.1 use invalid macro for mdoc"
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- 1.17: Tue Jan 14 09:55:00 UTC 2014, fixed a segfault, patch from Sebastian Ramacher
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- 1.17: Mon Aug 04, fixed a memory leak
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* 1.18: Thu Jun 25 11:36:05 UTC 2015
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- nested sheets now fully supported (does it make sense in TeX)
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- cosmetic changes: uniform indentation
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- suppression of warnings, mainly long/int ones. In short, zlib likes ints when size_t likes longs.
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- CLI synctex tool can build out of TeXLive (modulo appropriate options passed to the compiler)
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* 1.19: Mon Jul 3 20:03:56 UTC 2017
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- the nested sheets patch was not a good solution.
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It has been moved from the parser to the engine.
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See the `synctex.c` source file for detailed explanations.
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- there is a new synctex format specification.
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We can see that a `.synctex` file can contain many times
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the same vertical position because many objects belong
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to the same line. When the options read `-synctex=±2` or more,
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a very basic compression algorithm is used:
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if synctex is about to write the same number then it writes
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an `=` sign instead. This saves approximately 10% of the
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synctex output file, either compressed or not.
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The new synctex parser has been updated accordingly.
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Actual tex frontend won't see any difference with the
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TeX engines that include this new feature.
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Frontends with the new parser won't see any difference
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with the older TeX engines.
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Frontends with the new parser will only see a difference
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with new TeX engines if `-synctex=±2` or more is used.
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The author received useful remarks from the __pdfTeX__ developers, especially Hahn The Thanh,
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and significant help from __XeTeX__ developer Jonathan Kew.
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If you include or use a significant part of the __SyncTeX__ package into a software,
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I would appreciate to be listed as contributor and see __SyncTeX__" highlighted.
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Copyright (c) 2008-2017 jerome DOT laurens AT u-bourgogne DOT fr