[texworks] Project Management type stuff

[Paul A Norman]

Your point about new users who are not going to (or want to even) play
around with config files or working through thier TeX distro utilities
is a fact of life I have come to accept, and would like to do what i
can to help people who could otherwise well use LaTeX through tools
like TeXworks, or perhaps they will pass LaTeX and family by.

What I am exploring is whether this will always work on say Windows or
any other OS, becasue it apparently depends on both OS and on the
differing *TeX releases being used.

In Miktex I can set user directories that Miktex will look in for user
written packages, and documentation for mthelp shell command to find.
But that is not what I am wantng to do here.

Bruno Voisin and Stefan's thoughts, and Peter Flynn (over on another
list), suggest to me very strongly that we are not  going to find one
shoe to fit all with this.

So I am thinking that it may be possible to QtScript this in some way
to detect the OS and distro found by Tw (held in preferences) and
re-write relative file paths in the document preamble \usepackage{} as
required for the current documents OS and TeX distro.

We may need to enter them in a commented area and TwScript will
rewrite them in appropriately?

This may mean exposing those Tw distro info preferences for read only
access to TwScripting?

First I will need to research the thing thoroughly, if I can not find
someone who has already.

If sucessful, at worse this would only require encouraging
collaberators, or letting people know who download your stuff Alain,
that this will work if they use TeXworks, and may not always work
otherwise depending on OS and LaTeX distro.

I see that you are already needing to put notes in your download - has
anyone tried it on a linux dsitro?

Paul

On 15 October 2010 15:22, Alain Schremmer <schremmer.alain at gmail.com> wrote:
>>Dear Alain,

>>Thanks for pointing out that it works on Mac as described - that helps.

>Would you be kind enough to let me know when you find out how this works on Windows? The reason I "packed" the many stylesheets that way is that the stuff is being downloaded by people who have little if any knowledge of LaTeX so that to tell them that they had to place the stylesheets in texmf was sure to be a killer. What I don't understand, though, is why nobody on the windows side squawked.

>Regards
>
> On Oct 14, 2010, at 9:46 PM, Paul A Norman wrote:
>
>> Dear Alain,
>>
>> Thanks for pointing out that it works on Mac as described - that helps.
>
> Would you be kind enough to let me know when you find out how this works on
> Windows? The reason I "packed" the many stylesheets that way is that the
> stuff is being downloaded by people who have little if any knowledge of
> LaTeX so that to tell them that they had to place the stylesheets in texmf
> was sure to be a killer. What I don't understand, though, is why nobody on
> the windows side squawked.
>
> Regards
> --schremmer
>
> P.S. You can find the "system" at
> http://www.freemathtexts.org/System/Downloads.php
>
>

On Oct 14, 2010, at 9:46 PM, Paul A Norman wrote: