I am going to the Montreal Summit

This is just a quick note to say that I am going to the Montreal GNOME Summit. Contrary that for many the move from Boston to Montreal was bad, I just happened to be in Canada on the same dates, so for me it was a lucky move! I am looking forward to meet some GNOME devs for the first time on live.


Greets

Gedit-latex has been ported to Gedit 3.

So this post is to announce that I just have released gedit-latex 3.1.1. This is the first (unstable) release of Gtk3 port we did of the great plugin by Michael Zeising. You can download it from http://download.gnome.org/sources/gedit-latex/3.1/ and please file bugs against GNOME Bugzilla (product:gedit component:latex). We have been using it for quite some time and should be fairly stable. We hope to release Gedit-latex 3.2 along wi th the GNOME 3.2 Release.

Many thanks to Ignacio Casal Quinteiro, John Stowers, Lucas Roesler and Michael Zeising for all their help.

Enjoy!

SyncTeX support in Gnome 2.32

In the 2.32 release, Gnome is getting SyncTeX support. For those of you that don't use LaTeX, SyncTeX is a method (created by Jêrome Laurens) that enables synchronization between the TeX source file and the resulting Pdf or Dvi output. Here the required screencast.



So to implement SyncTeX in Gnome, together with Carlos Garcia Campos we added SyncTeX support to evince and exported a new DBUS API so editors can communicate with Evince. Next, I added a "synctex" plugin for gedit, to use the DBUS API exported by Evince. We support both Backward Search (Evince to Gedit synchronization) and Forward Search (Gedit to Evince synchronization).

We also added a new modeline parser, so if you add a complex project with several TeX files you can put

% mainfile: mainfile.tex

either in the first or last three lines of each included TeX file, and ForwardSearch will just work (BackwardSearch should always work, even if you don't add the modeline).