[texworks] word wrap and dollar signs

Mark Yagnatinsky markyag at gmail.com
Sun Nov 29 08:09:50 CET 2015


Thanks for responding!  The version is 5.4.1

On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Stefan Löffler <st.loeffler at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 20.08.2015 16:28, Mark Yagnatinsky wrote:
>> I upgraded to 0.4.6 somewhat recently, and most of the changes are
>> good.  (In particular, hurray for precise SyncTeX!  I don't use hard
>> wrap, so I was never able to get better than paragraph level precision
>> before, which is especially painful when the paragraph spans a page
>> boundary.)
>
> :).
>
>> There is one change that's been annoying me a lot though, and I can't
>> find it in the change log which makes me wonder whether my memory is
>> playing tricks on me, though I doubt it.  Let's take the sentence
>> "Observe that $x$ is never prime".  The old version would keep the
>> substring "$x$" on one line.  The new one sometimes breaks it right
>> before the second dollar sign.  Sometimes it also breaks things right
>> after the first dollar sign.  I like having math stay on one line, and
>> I don't like pressing "enter".
>
> Word wrapping is performed automatically by Qt, and it seems they might
> have changed something on their end. Is your new version is running on
> Qt 5 (from Help > About TeXworks...) rather than Qt 4 as the previous ones?
>
> Best,
> Stefan



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