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<h2 id="implementations">Implementations</h2> <ul><li>In <a href="/facts/TeX/HDrl3Yvd">TeX</a> and <a href="/facts/LaTeX/c1lvjF0A">LaTeX</a>, the package <a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/srcltx">srcltx</a> provides an inverse search feature through DVI output files (e.g., with <a href="/facts/Yet_Another_Previewer/DIVp16lk">yap</a> or <a href="/facts/Xdvi/qTXkdMIe">Xdvi</a>), while <a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/vpe">vpe</a>, <a href="http://ctan.org/pkg/pdfsync">pdfsync</a> and <a href="http://itexmac.sourceforge.net/SyncTeX.html">SyncTeX</a> provide similar functionality for PDF output, among other techniques. The <a href="/facts/Comparison_of_TeX_editors/IoFYCBet">Comparison of TeX editors</a> has a column on support of inverse search; most of them provide it nowadays.</li> <li><a href="/facts/GNU_LilyPond/AILGy6Ie">GNU LilyPond</a> provides an inverse search feature through PDF output files, since version 2.6. The program calls this feature <i>Point-and-click</i>,</li> <li>Many <a href="/facts/Integrated_development_environment/jbEINSQf">integrated development environments</a> for <a href="/facts/Computer_programming/QmSsFnu0">programming</a> use inverse search to display <a href="/facts/Compiler/WNfCDFJe">compilation</a> <a href="/facts/Error_message/ko8elN1w">error messages</a>, and during <a href="/facts/Debugger/mCe6UsWj">debugging</a> when a <a href="/facts/Breakpoint/LgtYUIlq">breakpoint</a> is hit.</li></ul> <h2 id="bibliography">Bibliography</h2> <ul><li>Jérôme Laurens, ”Direct and reverse synchronization with SyncTeX”, in <i>TUGboat</i> 29(3), 2008, p365–371, <a href="http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb29-3/tb93laurens.pdf">PDF (532KB)</a> — <i>including an overview of synchronization techniques with TeX</i></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://xdvi.sourceforge.net/inverse-search.html">How to set up inverse search with xdvi</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Inverse Search with Xdvi(k) on sourceforge.net <a href="http://xdvi.sourceforge.net/inverse-search.html" target="_blank">http://xdvi.sourceforge.net/inverse-search.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>