[texworks] Problems on Ubuntu 10.10

[Paul A Norman]

Cool.

On 14 January 2011 08:27, Johannes Heck <heck.johannes at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>
> 2011/1/12 Johannes Heck <heck.johannes at googlemail.com>
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>> 2011/1/12 Lutz-Peter Kurdelski <lutz-peter at kurdelski.com>
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot for your time solving this little problem.
>>>
>>> Under Edit->Preferences->Typesetting there is in the top window a list
>>> of search directories.
>>> The first was /usr/bin the second the one of the TeX binaries.
>>> just moving the second to the top - the order of the list obviously
>>> represents the search order -
>>> solves the problem.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Lutz-Peter
>>>
>>> Am 12.01.2011 15:04, schrieb Vladimir Lomov:
>>> > ** Lutz-Peter Kurdelski [2011-01-11 23:00:22 +0100]:
>>> >
>>> >> Thanks for the hints. Let me summarize some information.
>>> >> I installed TeXLive from a local copy of the DVD contents using
>>> >> install-tl --gui=perl-tk
>>> >> Luckily I could use the defaults except removing some documentation
>>> >> and
>>> >> languages I do not use.
>>> >> After that I installed - oops, may this be the problem -
>>> >> texworks_0.3.0~svn726~maverick1_amd64.deb
>>> >> with XeTeX extensions and
>>> >> texworks-scripting-lua_0.3.0~svn726~maverick1_amd64.deb
>>> >> texworks-scripting-python_0.3.0~svn726~maverick1_amd64.deb
>>> >> TeXWorks itself runs. I can use the KOMA-letter template and write
>>> >> nice
>>> >> letters. But when I change to dinbrief.cls it fails.
>>> >> Please note the following:
>>> >> $ kpsewhich dinbrief.cls
>>> >> /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/dinbrief/dinbrief.cls
>>> >> $ locate dinbrief.cls
>>> >> /usr/local/share/texmf/latex/styles/latex2e/lpkdinbrief.cls
>>> >> /usr/local/share/texmf/latex/styles/latex2e/lpkdinbrief.cls.bak
>>> >> /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/tex/latex/dinbrief/dinbrief.cls
>>> >>
>>> >> /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/local/styles/latex2e/lpkdinbrief.cls
>>> >>
>>> >> /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/local/styles/latex2e/lpkdinbrief.cls.bak
>>> > Ok, you have the class file.
>>> >
>>> >> $ locate kpsewhich
>>> >>
>>> >> /LAB/TeXLive/ctan/graphics/metapost/base/source/texk/kpathsea/kpsewhich.c
>>> >>
>>> >> /LAB/TeXLive/ctan/graphics/metapost/base/source/texk/kpathsea/man/kpsewhich.man
>>> >> /LAB/TeXLive/ctan/support/autoconf/ac_prog_kpsewhich.m4
>>> >> /usr/bin/kpsewhich
>>> >> /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-linux/kpsewhich
>>> >> /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf/doc/man/man1/kpsewhich.1
>>> >> /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf/doc/man/man1/kpsewhich.man1.pdf
>>> >> /usr/share/man/man1/kpsewhich.1.gz
>>> > See, you have two kpsewhich: one (first) from distro tex package and
>>> > from TL installation (second)
>>> >
>>> >> and the path:
>>> >> $ echo $PATH
>>> >>
>>> >> /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-linux:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
>>> > Now this doesn't mean that your texworks uses it. Check this:
>>> > Edit->Prefereces...->Typesetting->Paths for Tex and related programs
>>> > the path
>>> > /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-linux
>>> > should be in first place.
>>> >
>>> > ---
>>> > WBR, Vladimir Lomov
>>> >
>>>
>>
>> I was able to reproduce that and solve it the same way, but now I've got
>> another issue:
>> On Ubuntu 10.10 with TeX Live 2010 and Tex works editor Version 0.2.3
>> (r.466) (this one pas included by today's tl-web-installer)
>> the first lines are cut:
>> I see only
>>
>> EX encoding = UTF-8
>>
>> \documentclass[12pt]{scrreprt}
>>
>> \usepackage{fontspec}
>>
>> instead of
>>
>> % !TEX TS-program = xelatex % !TEX encoding = UTF-8
>> \documentclass[12pt]{scrreprt} \usepackage{fontspec}
>>
>> Is this issue already known?
>
> Sorry guys, forget my former post, in Version 0.3 r.726 (launchpad) this
> issue doesn't occure anymore.
>