Skim Displayline Package

Runs displayline from Atom.

Displayline

The displayline is a command line tool of Skim to highlight a line on PDF specified by a line number in the TeX source file.

Usage:

$ /Applications/Skim.app/Contents/SharedSupport/displayline
Usage: displayline [-r] [-b] [-g] LINE PDFFILE [TEXSOURCEFILE]
Options:
-r, -revert      Revert the file from disk if it was open
-b, -readingbar  Indicate the line using the reading bar
-g, -background  Do not bring Skim to the foreground

Setup

Add the path for displayline to $PATH in $HOME/.bash_profile.

export PATH=/Applications/Skim.app/Contents/SharedSupport/:$PATH

Check:

$ type -a displayline
displayline is /Applications/Skim.app/Contents/SharedSupport/displayline

Usage

1. Create PDF with latex -synctex=1 example.tex && dvipdfmx example.dvi. (-synctex=1 is required.)
2. Open example.pdf by Skim.
3. Open the command pallet by shift-cmd-P on Atom.
4. Find Skim:Displayline and run it.

Or, for example, add the following to keymap.cson.

'.platform-darwin':
  'cmd-s cmd-s': 'skim:displayline'