[texworks] line numbers Merge and text disappears

[Paul A Norman]

On 21 June 2011 18:09, Stefan Löffler <st.loeffler at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 2011-06-20 11:22, Paul A Norman wrote:
> > I'm on v0.5 r804(official), what (Menu://Help/About TeXworks) version
> > are you on please?
>
> I had another inspiration. Please test r845 or later - hopefully that
> fixes this issue finally.
>

Thanks, will do, noticed also that sometimes the cursor gets lost at the end
of the line, and you have to click in the document elsewhere to regain it.

>
> > Not sure if it is safe for text integrity to ignore it, and keep
> > editing, one of the reasons I keep local version numbers of source
> > documents.
>
> >From what I've seen so far, text integrity should not be affected - it
> seems to be a problem with rendering the text only. But then again,
> there might be more to it than meets the eye.
>

One of the dangers has been  not realising/noticing the line jumble up and
that text has disappeared/hidden, and retyping or reinserting things (text
graphics figures etc) and then later finding your document with double ups
or old edits of text.

That's one of the first reasons I have become so keen on local versioning as
I go.

Have made a hook script which prompts to save a date time stamped file name
copy for the current document (same directory) after each typeset. (How does
latexErrors.js know to not kick in after a non .tex typeset like a
bibliography?)

Looks like this in the dir listing:
  These-fair-Isles-2011-06-21--18-11-53.tex

So they appear together in time sequence by name in the directory listing ,
and can so be zipped up and away en-block.

Let me know if any one is interested and I'll try and put the script up.

Paul




>
> HTH
> Stefan
>
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