[texworks] Beginners' needs (was: Lua scripting)
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Thu Jun 18 00:01:03 CEST 2009
On 16 June 2009 David J. Perry wrote:
> a. The manual that Alain wrote does a fine job of teaching people
> how to actually use the TeXworks front end. True beginners need
> some additional information to get them started in the TeX world.
> One example: it took me a while to understand the differences
> between the various "dialects" of TeX, which is obviously a very
> important piece of information; until you understand that you have
> no idea what those options in the Typesetting dialog are all about.
But people don't install TeXworks before they know what TeX actually
is. Is
http://tug.org/begin.html
not sufficient? I agree with you that it's senseless to duplicate
things.
However, I've already seen files called "install.texi". If you ever
found out how to install a particular program, then you are able to
read the installation instructions. Of course, there is always a file
called "INSTALL" in the top level directory and you actually don't
need anything else. At least not "install.texi".
Similarly, I don't think that a document describing different TeX
dialects should be part of the TeXworks distribution. People have to
read it *before* they install anything. And it's not related to
TeXworks at all. People also don't install TeX Live if they don't
know what it's good for.
Regards,
Reinhard
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