[texworks] Update on Some help Information

[Paul A Norman]

Dear Jonathan,
I realise this may be a "no goer".

But ..

Would it please be possible to requeest that on startup, TeXWorks could make
a file in its binary directory that would contain just the local path to the
MiTeX installation, perhaps called mitex.txt

Or is there something else in/under the binary directory (perhaps not in
config folder as that can be anywhere) that already has that information?

I am looking to pick this up through JavaScript in the browser for the
html help project I am working though - what I am actually looking for is
the "doc" directory, something like :

D:/LaTeXPortable/LatexUtils/MiTeX 2.8.3541 Portabe/doc
or
D:\LaTeXPortable\LatexUtils\MiTeX 2.8.3541 Portabe\doc

Paul

2009/10/9 Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at googlemail.com>

> On 8 Oct 2009, at 12:32, Paul A Norman wrote:
>
>  Dear TexWorks developers - Users,
>>
>> I have been able to intergrate the processes on the help files I have been
>> working on so that there is a combined interface.  This gives intergrated
>> access and searching to Nasa LaTeX Caoomand and Environments help, Uk Faq,
>> Ctan package information, and Alain's TeXWorks html help.
>>
>> I am debugging and working at speeding things up as much as possible
>>
>> On the Nasa help, I am starting to work through with Helmut Kopka and
>> Patrick W. Daly's Guide to LateX 4th edition verifying things against the
>> points you raised about the documentations age Jonathan.
>>
>> I would like to next focus on some packages that could do with integrated
>> help.  I am considering looking at graphicx, hyperref, color issues, and
>> flowfram.
>>
>> Johnathan, I would like to ask please, could there be a dedicated
>> directory name under the TeXWorks binary that I could safely use please for
>> any one who wants to add what I am doing to their TeXWorks work flow?
>>
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> This looks like becoming a really great collection of resources!
>
> What I'd like to do in a while, once things are reasonably stable, is to
> bundle at least some of this with the package that's distributed, and have
> it available via the Help menu. I'm not sure how your "combined interface"
> will fit with this -- it's certainly nice to have an integrated lookup
> across all the documents, but at the same time, I think it's probably nice
> to have browsable starting-points for each of the resources.
>
> If you create a new folder within the texworks-help directory, and
> (optionally) language-coded subdirectories within that, texworks will look
> for a file "index.html" in there. If it finds one, a menu item will
> automatically be added to the Help menu to launch this with your default
> browser. The menu item will be the subdirectory name, or you can provide a
> one-line text file "tw-help-title.txt" to override it. So this already lets
> you experiment with new Help resources.
>
> The next step will be to (a) add support for a similar texworks-help
> subdirectory within the TW library folder (along with the config files,
> dictionaries, etc) so that you can add "personal" resources separately from
> those distributed with the package; and (b) make it easy to do a direct
> lookup of a selected word/command/etc from within texworks, by passing it
> via the URL that is sent to the browser. I think this should be easy to do
> if I provide access to the texworks "openUrl" handler from QtScript.
>
> If I have time at the weekend, perhaps I can look into this and get an
> experimental build posted for you to try....
>
> JK
>
>
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