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Re: TeXing in KDE4: okular and inverse search (dvi)



El Miércoles, 30 de Abril de 2008, Felix Homann escribió:
> I didn't try this time. Last time, kdvi wouldn't go hand in hand with
> KDE4. Since I'm TeXing almost everyday, KDE4 wasn't an option for me
> then. Getting back to KDE3 (cleanly) was that easy either. So I was
> reluctant to try it again without knowing how to use kdvi or a
> inverse-search capable Okular.
>
> I'll give it a try again on the weekend.
>
> > On the other hand you can use pdflatex but for shure, you know that. So
> > you might have reasons to use the dvi driver.
>
> Yes, I know. Reasons to use dvi are
>
> 1. I've got way too many .eps files. Why should I bother converting them
> all to pdf? (I tend to produce pdf and eps graphics in parallel now for
> a while)
> 2. My Emacs is nicely set up for working together with kdvi. I don't
> know how to achieve the same using Okular/pdfsync.

Excuse my ignorance, but what is the gain of using KDVI over a PDF viewer like 
Okular? I always create PDFs to test how my LaTeX is looking, and I do that 
only because most times (but not always) I print them.

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