[texworks] Setting the typesetting

[Alain Schremmer]

On Jul 1, 2010, at 1:10 AM, Paul A Norman wrote:

> Dear Schremmer,
>
> What version and revision of Tw are you using please?

(Version 0.2.3 (r.466)
The Mac dmg)
>
> (Help/About)
>
> For a while now it has been possible to set the default action on Edit
> / Preferences / Typesetting  -- using the drop-down box at the bottom
> of that tab.
>
> Alain Delmotte has also prepared an excellant manual, available from
> the Help menu in all recent relases.
>
> "A short manual for TEXworks"
>
> He lists some useful information there under,
>
> ``3.4  Changing TEXworks parameters for convenience
> ...
>
> ``From the Typeset menu or from the drop-down on the Typesetting tool
> bar, you can change the compilation format. Again this change will
> only be temporary.
>
> ``To have permanent changes, you need to change the Preferences
> through the Edit/ Preferences… menu, using the Editor tab for the font
> and Typesetting tab for the compilation format: the default format is
> at the bottom of the tab (let’s choose pdfLaTex for this one).''
>
> I hope that this helps,

Actually, I was not looking for help as I am using TeXShop. The  
behavior of TeXworks just struck me as being unusual in that respect  
in that it has to be set each time rather than remembered by the  
application.
Regards
--schremmer
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 1 July 2010 16:28, Alain Schremmer <schremmer.alain at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> It seems to me that a user who uses, say pdfLaTeX, should not have  
>> to reset
>> the typesetting each time s/he starts TeXworks.
>>
>> Or Is there a particular reason that the typesetting choice is not
>> remembered? Like everybody working on TeXworks is a TeXpert? Or me  
>> having
>> missed something?
>>
>> Regards
>> --schremmer
>>
>