[TxMt] Is the following pdfsync-instruction right?

[Mark Eli Kalderon]

On May 10 2007, at 13:12, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:

>
> On May 10, 2007, at 7:13 AM, Niels Kobschätzki wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Skim (skim-app.sourceforge.net), a very neat and free pdf-viewer  
>> supports now pdfsync and they set up a wiki with some instructions  
>> how to enable Skim as viewer for pdfsync in Textmate. But I think  
>> the instructions are more complex than they should be.
>>
>> The site is: http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/ 
>> LaTeX_and_PDFSync
>>
>> Isn't it even in the standard-install of TextMate only necessary  
>> to set the Shell Variable TM_LATEX_VIEWER to Skim?
>>
> No, the LaTeX and View, and the other sync command, need to make an  
> extra call if the viewer supports pdfsync. Currently we are only  
> handling TeXniscope and PDFView, but I think we should be able to  
> add Skim to the list.
>
> I haven't tried Skim, what are its advantages over PDFView?
>

One reason TextMate should support Skim out of the box is that there  
is evidence that development of PDFView may halt. On the Sourceforge  
tracker, Andrea Bergia, PDFView’s developer, writes:[1]
> Hello, I am the developer of PDFView, an application which seems  
> superseded by your wonderful Skim in many regards. I actually plan  
> to use it as my default PDF reader…
Best, Mark

[1]: <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?% 
20func=detail&aid=1693191&group_id=192583&atid=941984>