Help: New Setup

[pramitbiswas]

Description

I'm new to LaTeX as well as VSCode. Currently, I'm using TeXstudio and want to try out VSCode for my LaTeX writing. While doing so, few hiccups I faced as described below.

Log messages

LaTeX Workshop Output

When buildig:

Found root file from active editor: f:\Writtings\main.tex
Root file remains unchanged from: f:\Writtings\main.tex.
ACTIONS command invoked.
RECIPES command invoked.
BUILD command invoked.
Found root file from active editor: f:\Writtings\main.tex
Root file remains unchanged from: f:\Writtings\main.tex.
Building root file: f:\Writtings\main.tex
Build root file f:\Writtings\main.tex
Recipe step 1: pdflatex, -synctex=1,-interaction=nonstopmode,-file-line-error,f:/Writtings/main
LaTeX log parsed with 15 messages.
Recipe step 2: biber, Second v0.2
Recipe step 3: pdflatex, -synctex=1,-interaction=nonstopmode,-file-line-error,f:/Writtings/main
LaTeX log parsed with 15 messages.
Recipe step 4: pdflatex, -synctex=1,-interaction=nonstopmode,-file-line-error,f:/Writtings/main
LaTeX log parsed with 15 messages.
Recipe of length 4 finished.
Successfully built f:\Writtings\main.tex
No PDF viewer connected for f:\Writtings\main.pdf

After this nothing happen; hence, manually opening 'view LaTex pdf'

ACTIONS command invoked.
VIEW command invoked.
Found root file from active editor: f:\Writtings\main.tex
Root file remains unchanged from: f:\Writtings\main.tex.
No PDF viewer connected for f:\Writtings\main.pdf
Serving PDF file at http://127.0.0.1:56813/viewer.html?file=/pdf:f%253A%255CIITP%2520PhD%255CProject%255CWrittings%255CJournal%255CSecond%255CSecond%2520v0.2.pdf
Open PDF tab for f:\Writtings\main.pdf
Preview PDF file: f:\Writtings\main.pdf
Executing synctex with args view,-i,1460:19:f:\Writtings\main.tex,-o,f:\Writtings\main.pdf
Cannot synctex: spawn synctex ENOENT, 
Try root file in root directory: f:\Writtings\main v0.0.tex
Parsing f:\Writtings\main v0.0.tex
Parsing f:\Writtings\FigTab\n7n.tex
Try root file in root directory: f:\Writtings\main v0.0s.tex
Parsing f:\Writtings\main v0.0s.tex
Parsing f:\Writtings\FigTab\n7n.tex
Try root file in root directory: f:\Writtings\main v0.1.tex
Parsing f:\Writtings\main v0.1.tex
Parsing f:\Writtings\FigTab\n7n.tex
Try root file in root directory: f:\Writtings\main.tex
Parsing f:\Writtings\main.tex
Parsing f:\Writtings\FigTab\n7n.tex

Developer Tools Console

Nothing suspicious.

How to reproduce

OS: Windows 10 x64
MikTeX
VSCode+LaTeX Workshop

My settings are:

"latex-workshop.latex.recipes": [
    {
        "name": "pdflatex->biber->pdflatex*2",
        "tools": [
            "pdflatex",
            "biber",
            "pdflatex",
            "pdflatex"
        ]
    }
],
"latex-workshop.latex.tools": [
    {
        "name": "pdflatex",
        "command": "pdflatex",
        "args": [
            "-synctex=1",
            "-interaction=nonstopmode",
            "-file-line-error",
            "%DOC%"
        ]
    },
    {
        "name": "bibtex",
        "command": "bibtex",
        "args": [
            "%DOCFILE%"
        ]
    },
    {
        "name": "biber",
        "command": "biber",
        "args": [
          "%DOCFILE%"
        ]
    },
    {
        "name": "viewPDF",
        "command": "viewPDF",
        "args": [
          "%DOCFILE%"
        ]
    }
],
"latex-workshop.synctex.afterBuild.enabled": true,
"latex-workshop.view.pdf.viewer": "tab"

Expected behavior

I want few similar workflow like TeXstudio, they are: i) whenever I run pdflatex and all, it should show me generated pdf in the right side automatically after the finish of compilation, ii) should highlight momentarily the last portion I edited in latex, iii) I can go pdf to latex and vice-versa for selected area.

Actual behavior

After the successful build pdf does not shows up automatically, I have to open the pdf manually.
After opening the pdf manually, pdf to latex (in TeXstudio it is: right click on the area I want to go, then 'Go to source') and vice-versa (in TeXstudio it is: right click on the area I want to go, then 'Go to pdf') not working.

Additional Information

Is it possible? Am I missing anything? Any better way?
Thank you very much for enabling a way to write and build LaTeX in VS Code.

[jlelong]

pdf to latex and vice-versa works in LaTeX-Workshop and relies on synctex.

• ctrl + click in the .pdf file to jump to the .tex file
• Right click in the .tex and choose SyncTeX from cursor to jump to the .pdf file.

[pramitbiswas]

i) generated pdf not showing automatically.
Steps mentioned above didn't work, got the following output:
ii) Cannot reverse synctex: spawn synctex ENOENT.
iii) Cannot synctex: spawn synctex ENOENT.

[James-Yu]

ENOENT means your LaTeX distribution does not include synctex.