[texworks] Early thoughts

[Herbert Schulz]

On Sep 21, 2008, at 3:24 AM, Jérome Laurens wrote:

> Le 21 sept. 08 à 09:16, Will Robertson a écrit :
>
>> On 18/09/2008, at 11:40 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>>
>>> On 18 Sep 2008, at 2:52 PM, Will Robertson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Why would you want to change the font or syntax highlighting  
>>>> individually?
>>>
>>> Those of us who work with "unusual" languages sometimes like to  
>>> set a different font for those files than in our TeX macros. (Of  
>>> course, this suggests that I might want it to *remember* per-file  
>>> settings, but that's not implemented, at least not yet.)
>>
>> I was going to say, here, that it would be better (I think) to use  
>> a "Document preferences" mode for something like this. It could  
>> also be used to set the encoding, typesetting program, etc.,  
>> without having to "dirty" the file with %! flags.
>>
>> W
>>
>
> I guess you meant to store some preferences on a per document basis.
> This is absolutely essential to gain a really comfortable user  
> experience.
> Documents should also remember their state when they were closed:
> the pdf window should display the last page viewed, with the same  
> magnification and the same frame.
> The text window should also reopen in exactly the same state.
>
> But a concrete implementation of per document prefs requires some  
> serious thoughts.
> The most evident method is to use extended file attributes (similar  
> to resource forks on Mac OS)
> that many file systems support. Unfortunately, this is not a  
> portable solution because
> extended attributes are lost during file transfers (when copied to  
> or from a USB drive with a different file system for example).
>
> The answer is project design.
> AFAIR, AucTeX, texniccenter, eclipse, iTeXMac, iTeXMac2 use project  
> design.
>
> Even TeXShop's aux file with a .texshop extension was the start of a  
> project design.
>


Howdy,

The more things change the more they remain the same.
What goes around comes around.
Feels like I've been here before.

:-)

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)