[texworks] Wishlist for pdf previewer

[Stefan Löffler]

Hi,

On 2011-11-01 01:17, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> with rev. 943 I get at most 800%.  Is there anything I have to
> configure?

No - sorry for the misunderstanding. Charlie has already clarified that
in this thread, we're talking about code that is not yet in the Tw
repository - but will be merged once ready.

> Yes, a measurement tool would be fine.  And with marquee zoom you get
> a quite good resolution.  gv is showing the cursor coordinates already
> but what I'm missing there is to be able to change the origin and the
> unit of measure.

Since these are linear transformations, there is little that is easier
to code than that, once the measurement is implemented itself ;).

> Stefan, I fully second your decision to drop Python.  I asked for
> scripting support from the beginning.  But I still don't see the need
> to support zillions of scripting languages.  I proposed Lua because
> it's easy to learn and more portable than anything else since there is
> LuaTeX.  I also think that people learn Lua in order to have more fun
> with LuaTeX.  But if QtScript already provides a lot of things which
> have to be ported to Lua, I would also be happy with QtScript.

Lua is untouched (in fact, the Python code is, too, I just don't
activate it in the builds anymore).
The original point was to provide different scripting languages so
 - people can use whatever they are comfortable with
 - as much code as possible can be reused (think, e.g., of querying
citation databases)

But since it's a lot of work to learn how to include a new scripting
language, and because most people seem to use QtScript, anyway (which is
the most portable, BTW, because it doesn't rely on plugins etc.) we've
stopped at Lua and Python (e.g., PHP had been suggested a while back, I
think).

Cheers,
Stefan