Paul, <br><br>Some feedback and a question. I'm going to number them, because it's not really well laid out here.<br>I'm on a Ubuntu Linux desktop, v9.10, TeXworks Version 0.3 r.671 (launchpad).<br><br>1.<br>I had to enable the QtScript debugger in Tw preferences before this would run (otherwise I got an error message "ReferenceError: __FILE__ is not defined"). Is that expected?<br>
<br>2.<br>After running the menu command, I was waiting a while for the help screen to load (it initially opened with an empty RHS pane, except for 'Wait a moment'), so I switched to another application. Twice, the help dialogue forced focus back to itself as, I guess, it loaded bits and pieces. <br>
<br>3a.<br>I searched for \usepackage by highlighting it in my editor, and running the menu command. The twin panes opened, then showed four choices on the left (usebox, usecounter, usefont, usepackage), and the help text for usepackage on the right - nice! I clicked on usepackage in the LHS pane, and got an error: <br>
<meta name="qrichtext" content="1"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><style type="text/css">
p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
</style>
<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">Cannot read file "/home/ben/.TeXworks/scripts/Help/html/QVariant(QUrl)":<br>
No such file or directory</p></blockquote><br>3b.<br>The error causes the QtScript debugger to open in the background, but I can 't do anything to it. If I click on the Help dialogue at this point in time, the Help dialogue is focussed, which hides the error popup (I didn't realise this at first, just thought it had been dismissed). <br>
<br>3c.<br>I can't do anything to the debugger until I cancel the Help dialogue. I wouldn't know what to do with it anyway, but just curious if this is supposed to be useful?<br><br>4. <br>Opening the Big List: the drop down box is the full width of my (smallish) screen, due to one entry. See attached screenshot (TheBigList.png)<br>
<br>5. <br>The button at bottom-left isn't big enough for the text on my system. See attached screenshot (HelpScreen.png).<br><br>Ben<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 July 2010 23:48, Paul A Norman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul.a.norman@gmail.com">paul.a.norman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi,<br>
<br>
Thanks Jonathan and Stefan!<br>
<br>
Here is the next shot at it, I've adopted all of the recomendations I<br>
think. Layout system was a new experience! I've added another set of<br>
entries to the left menu to give more fuller results (added the<br>
Concept Index).<br>
<br>
Couple of function changes - nothing spectacular.<br>
<br>
Made a new directory for the user's index to go into, to protect it<br>
from future updates. (A blank copy of the neeed file will then be<br>
found in /html/)<br>
<br>
Any way here goes, pleae let me know if that works cross platform.<br>
<br>
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<br>
This is a Tw help dialogue (ver 0.52) July 7th 2010 that replaces the<br>
<div class="im">NASA help info.<br>
It utilises the LaTeX2e Help work done by Karl Berry and others.<br>
<br>
</div>The zip completely replaces ver 0.5 released here a few days ago. If<br>
you installed that, delete its whole directory first.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
Due to Jonathan Kew and Steffan Loefer's, and others efforts, it is<br>
fully integrated with the Tw editor, and requires no outside browser.<br>
<br>
Down load fom here --<br>
</div><a href="http://code.google.com/p/texworks/issues/detail?id=261&can=5&q=sCRIPT#c30" target="_blank">http://code.google.com/p/texworks/issues/detail?id=261&can=5&q=sCRIPT#c30</a><br>
<div class="im"><br>
Unzip into your scripts folder, perhaps into a directory called<br>
`help'. Allow decompression to `use folder names'. Refresh your<br>
Scripts from the Scripts Menu.<br>
<br>
Make sure your TeXWorks document is saved first.<br>
<br>
You can then use (Win) Alt+F1,Alt+2 together to open this help-(Help<br>
for LaTeX2e).<br>
<br>
In the Tw Editor, select some text first, a full command, or partial<br>
text that you want to search for help on. (Double clicking a LaTeX<br>
command name will select it for you.)<br>
<br>
</div><div class="im">Further help information is available in the dialogue.<br>
<br>
Paul<br>
<br>
</div><div><div></div><br></div></blockquote></div><br>