[AUCTeX-devel] Correlate I/O and pdfsync

[Dennis Walter]

Dear AUCTeX developers,

I have been desperately trying to get the very useful Correlate I/O 
feature to work with pdfsync. (I cannot use synctex, because our 
installation of TeX does not support it, and I have no way of upgrading 
it myself.) I know that "style/pdfsync.el" of the AUCTeX installation 
gets loaded, because LaTeX-pdfsync-output-page does exist. However,
TeX-source-correlate-output-page-function remains undefined, which is 
what I do not understand, as its definition as LaTeX-pdfsync-output-page 
is added as a hook via TeX-add-style-hook. I do not understand the 
details of TeX's hook implementation, so I cannot tell when the hook 
gets executed, and when the file pdfsync.el gets loaded (which obviously 
needs to happen beforehand).

Can you tell me what the regular procedure for getting pdfsync to work 
is? Information on the web regarding this issue was scarce.

Btw, I understand that Correlate I/O needs to be active, etc. :) I 
assume that "%(outpage)" gets replaced by "1", because 
TeX-source-correlate-output-page-function is nil (line 452 in tex.el of 
AUCTex 11.86). At least, I can see that AUCTeX fires up a viewer with 
the "open specific page" option.

Many thanks for any hints and solutions,
  Dennis