[texworks] integrating TeX Works into TeX Live

[Jonathan Kew]

On 15 Mar 2009, at 14:08, Stefan Löffler wrote:

> The texworks-portable.ini is intended primarily to tell TW (from the
> command line)

Not sure what you mean by this. The texworks-portable file applies  
equally to TW launched from an icon in a GUI, doesn't it?

> that it should operate in portability mode. At the moment,
> only two options are supported in it: ini-path and lib-path. The  
> former
> points to a directory in which TW should store its configuration  
> file in
> the form TeXworks.ini (I think). The latter points to the directory  
> from
> which TW loads its highlighting patterns, completion templates, etc.

Suppose we supported a third key in this file: defaultbinpaths = <list  
of paths>.

This would provide fresh defaults for the paths, replacing the  
compiled-in ones. (They'd still be overridden by any changes the user  
makes in the Preferences dialog, of course. The "Restore Defaults"  
button in Prefs would reset to the defaults from this .ini file,  
rather than the compiled-in paths.)

Then all the TL installer needs to do is create a small .ini file  
alongside the TW binary, listing the appropriate bin directories. It  
wouldn't put the inipath or libpath keys in the file at all, as TW  
knows where to put these by default for proper per-user setup.

If there are other defaults that we want to make configurable at  
installation time, they could be added here too, but I would want to  
keep these to an absolute minimum; at the moment, I can't think of  
anything else that deserves to be done here.

(Oh, and I'm thinking of renaming the file something like "texworks- 
setup.ini" as this isn't really related to "portable" mode.)

WDYT?