Sioyek is amazing! I would love to be able to integrate it with latextools and sublimetext and to use sioyek to easily annotate PDFs and export annotations to a separate .txt or .md file

[gbstan]

Hi there,
Thank you so much for developing such a powerful PDF viewer. It has features that are very useful and that I never seen before (one only realise how useful they are when we see them and use them).

I would love to be able to integrate sioyek with latextools and sublimetext, especially for synctex. I have tried to do so but couldn't really get it to work on a mac.

Another feature that would make me switch to sioyek from skim.app on the mac would be the ability to use sioyek to easily add text comments to a PDF, and then export these comments to a .txt or .md file. This feature of skim.app on a mac is really helpful to easily annotate a PDF and create a text report from text comments/annotations and highlights too (in skim you can highlight and add text to the highlighted text too).

[ahrm]

I would love to be able to integrate sioyek with latextools and sublimetext, especially for synctex. I have tried to do so but couldn't really get it to work on a mac.

I don't use sublime text so I don't know the exact commands, but the synctex feature is completely configurable, so you should be able to configure it to work for any viewer. See the documentation for more information.

ability to use sioyek to easily add text comments to a PDF, and then export these comments to a .txt or .md file

This could be added as an extensions. We already have an extension that adds text annotations. An extension that export these into a new document is pretty simple.

[gbstan]

Thank you for the quick response. I have tried to configure synctex to work with the sublimetext package latextools but couldn't get it to work.

Here is the best information I could find: https://latextools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/available-viewers/#preview and I tried to use this to get a latextools configuration in sublimetext to use sioyek but couldn't get it to work (not sure why).

For the annotation export to .txt or .md, I am not really versed into programming, so I have not tried myself.

I guess my suggestion is about some features that other pdf viewers/editors currently implement that might be useful to have with sioyek too.

[gbstan]

I think I got it to work.

The change for the configuration of latextools should look something like this:

"viewer": "command",
"viewer_settings": {
		// Platform-specific settings:
		"osx" : {
			"forward_sync_command": "sioyek --execute-command toggle_synctex --reuse-window $pdf_file --forward-search-file $src_file --forward-search-line $line",
                "view_command": "sioyek"
		},
}

[gbstan]

One more question: I am trying to get sioyek to execute two commands in the configuration above, but it seems only toggle_synctex is taken into consideration:

sioyek --execute-command toggle_synctex --execute-command toggle_presenation_mode

or do I not have the right syntax to pass on two commands to sioyek?

[ahrm]

You can do it like this:

sioyek --execute-command toggle_synctex;toggle_presenation_mode

[gbstan]

Yes, that is what I thought too; however when I try this below in the settings of latextools, I get synctex but not presentation-mode:

"viewer_settings": {
		// Platform-specific settings:
		"osx" : {
			"forward_sync_command": "sioyek --execute-command toggle_synctex;toggle_presenation_mode --reuse-window $pdf_file --forward-search-file $src_file --forward-search-line $line",
                "view_command": "sioyek"
			// See README or third-party documentation
		},
}

[ahrm]

That's because you misspelled presentation.

[gbstan]

Yup, you are right! Apologies for this.
One last question. It seems that with the current setup, invoking "sioyek --execute-command toggle_synctex;toggle_presentation_mode --reuse-window $pdf_file --forward-search-file $src_file --forward-search-line $line" will toggle synctex and presentation mode ON -> OFF and OFF -> ON each time, which means that each time we compile latex to pdf or we do a forward search using such a command, synctex (and presentation mode) will toggle from ON to OFF or OFF to ON. Is there a way to integrate and invoke repeatedly sioyek with syntex (or presentation mode) staying active instead of toggling?

I know this could be done via the prefs_user file, but I would like to have these options only active when sioyek is invoked via a text editor for latex compilation and viewing of the pdf file.

[ahrm]

I just added this option today (for synctex mode, I could also add it for presentation mode). See #556.

[gbstan]

Amazing! I wonder if there are other options that would benefit from staying ON or OFF beyond those two for user-cases like this one.

[ahrm]

Added for presentation mode in b511a58.

[gbstan]

For future reference here is the modification to sublimetext's latextools package for forward sync:

"viewer": "command",
"viewer_settings": {
		// Platform-specific settings:
		"osx" : {
			"forward_sync_command": "sioyek --execute-command turn_on_synctex;turn_on_presentation_mode --reuse-window $pdf_file --forward-search-file $src_file --forward-search-line $line",
                "view_command": "sioyek"
		},
},

[gbstan]

Thank so much for being responsive on these questions and requests. Looking forward to the next release of sioyek that integrates these changes