[texworks] [tex-live] texworks in TL 2010

[Lars Madsen]

On 2010-11-14 13:37, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> On 14 November 2010 Stefan Löffler wrote:
>
>   >  Hi,
>   >
>   >  Am 2010-11-13 13:17, schrieb Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd):
>   >  >
>   >  >
>   >  >  Axel E. Retif wrote:
>   >  >
>   >  >>  I'm replying from my Windows box. I pasted your example in TeXworks and
>   >  >>  immediately he typesetting format changed from pdfLaTeX to XeLaTeX.
>   >  >
>   >  >  Yes, the behaviour seems to be time/context sensitive.
>   >  >  Repeating your tests replicates your experienced
>   >  >  behaviour, but if I then reset the engine to TeX,
>   >  >  it fails as before.  I think that my expectations
>   >  >  were not aligned with reality : I expected the %!TS
>   >  >  pragmats to have an effect when the green "Go" button
>   >  >  was pressed, not at any other time.
>   >
>   >  Indeed. The %!TEX modlines are used during loading (and of course
>   >  if you manually change them). It is still possibly to override the
>   >  behavior by manually setting a typesetting engine, though. How else
>   >  would it be possible to run auxiliary programs (bibtex, makeindex,
>   >  ps2pdf, ...) easily?
>
> I'm wondering whether it isn't better to distinguish between tex
> engines/formats and other programs somehow.  Since there is the
> "Typeset" menu (in the menu bar) already, I think that it's probably
> better if the pull down menu near the "Go" button doesn't list all
> engines/formats but only the one the user has chosen for his project.
>
> It's more unlike then that a user accidentally overrides the %!TS
> specification.
>
> Regards,
>    Reinhard
>

that's a good idea, less clutter.

Does't emacs/auctex does it that way, one have to choose the engine, and 
the rest of the list is then the other programmes

/daleif