[texworks] Call for Help: Testing for Tw 0.4.4

Charlie Sharpsteen chuck at sharpsteen.net
Sun Apr 22 21:15:18 CEST 2012


On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Stefan Löffler <st.loeffler at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> first of all thanks to everyone who has tested Tw recently (and not
> found any problems, I hope ;)).
> There have been a few improvement recently, and most importantly I have
> updated my Windows build environment. So here is a second call for testing.
>
> Most importantly, there has been an issue
> (http://code.google.com/p/texworks/issues/detail?id=559) of syntax
> highlighting disappearing shortly after opening a document. That should
> hopefully be solved.
>
> At the same time, please check if the disappearing line problem is still
> solved (as the fix for issue 559 required some changes to code that may
> have affected the disappearing lines issue).
>
> Especially for Windows users: please check if everything works
> correctly. Most notably, there were some changes to the way poppler is
> built and where its fonts and encoding data are stored. I did a brief
> test with the Tw testcases (see
> https://code.google.com/p/texworks/source/browse/trunk#trunk%2Ftestcases)
> that
> worked fine, but it couldn't hurt if you could keep your eyes open as
> well. Other than that, the libraries have been updated to the latest
> versions (which should not cause problems, but sometimes does).
>
> Downloads can be found at:
> http://code.google.com/p/texworks/downloads/list (for Windows)
> https://launchpad.net/~texworks/+archive/ppa (for Ubuntu)
>
> If there are no new problems or fixes, I hope to release Tw within a
> week or so.
>
> Cheers,
> Stefan
>

Mac builds have also been updated.


-Charlie
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