[texworks] Wishlist for pdf previewer

[Paul A Norman]

Ok,

I think I worked it out.

It only happens with one of our current projects.

Due to our old versioning system, I had placed this at the top of the only
.tex file in that project when first being written:
& -job-name=These-Fair-Isles

... So that the document version number did not appear in the current .pdf
name

But now for some time since we changed our versioning method it has been
written as
%& -job-name=These-Fair-Isles

But that meant that as MiKTeX had thrown out the first .pdf made under it
as

  These-Fair-Isles.pdf

Then later I had changed the .tex header to
%& -job-name=These-Fair-Isles

So now the actual .tex name is used to determine the .pdf name when typeset.

The .tex file name is:
   These-fair-Isles.tex

Lower case on f in: Fair

And you can guess the rest.
Windows OS doesn't distinguish between these names and of course there is
only one .pdf present in the directory.

These-fair-Isles.pdf
These-Fair-Isles.pdf

(Emphasizing: that there is of course only one .pdf in the directory:
These-Fair-Isles.pdf)

And now as the -job-name is commented out, MiKTeX under Windows, keeps
typesetting out These-fair-Isles.tex to the first established name on disk:
 These-Fair-Isles.pdf

So when I open These-Fair-Isles.pdf directly from the Files/Open Recent
sub-menu
it opens, then when I click-sync  These-fair-Isles.tex opens in an editor
window, but when I click-sync in These-fair-Isles.tex
Tw being case sensitive at core on file names(?) thinks that the appropriate
.pdf is not active and asks the OS for  These-fair-Isles.pdf

The OS presents a new copy of These-Fair-Isles.pdf but
syncs successfully both into it, and the first manually opened copy -- that
is the strange part - successfully syncing onto both open copies but I can
sort of see how that might happen.

Write up a bug?

Paul


On 18 October 2011 23:57, Stefan Löffler <st.loeffler at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 2011-10-18 02:54, Paul A Norman wrote:
> > Feature Request: Is it easy enough for the previewer to be made able
> > to go in and out of grey-scale presentation and colour mode please?
>
> I guess it should be doable (not sure about the difficulty, though), but
> can you please give a typical case where you would need this?
>
> > Bug or Feature?: I've noticed that if I open a pdf first (made via
> > TeXworks), and use click-sync in that pdf, that the .tex editor opens
> > as expected, but also an extra copy of the .pdf as well.
> >
> > Then if I click-sync in the newly opened .tex editor, both copies of
> > the .pdf yellow highlight to the correct place.
>
> Bug, but (unfortunately) I cannot reproduce it on my system. Normally,
> Tw should recognize a corresponding pdf if it is already open and not
> open a copy of it. Probably there's some problem with that mechanism
> that you've came across now. So could you please describe in as much
> detail as possible what you did and especially the directory layout you
> use? In particular:
>  * What is the full path/filename of your .tex file?
>



>  * What is the full path/filename of your .pdf file?
>



>  * Do you use multiple .tex files?
>



>  * Do you use "%TeX root" to define a root file?
>


>  * How do you open the pdf file (e.g., from the explorer, i.e.,
> bypassing the normal startup / after starting Tw normally via File >
> Open / after having opened other .tex and/or .pdf files / ...)
>



>
> Cheers,
> Stefan
>
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