On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Philip TAYLOR <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk">P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Paul A Norman wrote:<br>
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Does it warrant a turn-off-able auto-detection of Preferences, and<br>
throwing up an advice or launching the appropriate part of TeXworks<br>
help if there is no typeset engine set or detected in likely paths?<br>
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Or would it be it too complicated to determine whether there is an<br>
appropriate typesetting engine in path or settings?<br>
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Given that TeXworks is called TeXworks, and that (in British<br>
English, at least) "the works" is slang for "everything"<br>
(as in "I'll have the works", when asked what you want for<br>
breakfast), I think that making a very good attempt at<br>
detecting whether or not a viable TeX system is installed<br>
and callable would be a Very Good Thing [tm].<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Philip Taylor<br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br><div>For a start, we should re-write some of the web pages so that it is explicitly stated in the first few paragraphs that TeXworks is just a piece of a larger system and that a user will need to install something like TeX Live or MiKTeX in order for TeXworks to be functional.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I believe there was a discussion about this a few months ago, but I cannot find the thread offhand.</div><div><br></div><div>-Charlie</div>