[texworks] new experimental builds

[James Crippen]

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 06:42, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 20 Dec 2009, at 16:34, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
>
>>> It's not *intended* to be SL-only, and it is definitely built as universal. But having updated my development machine to 10.6, using the new compiler and SDK versions, I'm not fully confident of backward compatibility until someone tries it.
>>
>>  I just tested it on 10.5.6 and it works fine.
>
> Thanks, that's encouraging. Anyone out there with Tiger care to try it?

I don't have Tiger, but 10.5.8 on a MacBook Pro. The experimental
version works well after setting the path by hand. Interestingly, the
path /usr/texbin is automatically converted from the symbolic link
location to the real location, which is
/usr/local/texlive/2009/bin/universal-darwin on my machine. This is
probably not what users would normally expect.

This version still doesn't remember that I hid the toolbars. They
appear every time I start the app and I still have to hide them
manually.

I love the new LaTeX errors tab on the output. This is going to make
my life *much* easier. But I wonder if it shouldn't be called "LaTeX
warnings" instead, since most of the entries will normally be nonfatal
warnings rather than fatal errors. Also, if I choose the errors tab it
doesn't switch back to Console output when I typeset, which is
confusing because I can't see that the typeset command started other
than in my CPU and disk meters. A preference to switch to the LaTeX
errors tab automatically after running would be nice, and then always
automatically switch back to Console output when a typeset run occurs.

Cheers,
James