[texworks] Text size

[Herbert Schulz]

On Aug 16, 2012, at 4:34 PM, Dona Strauss <D.Strauss at hull.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi!
>     I have a very simple-minded question. I would prefer to have a larger text size when typing a document in plaintex
> or latex. I cannot find out how to change the text size of the document that I am typing, as distinct from that of the pdf file. I would be very grateful if you could tell me how to do this.
>   Thanks.
>      Dona Strauss

Howdy,

TeXworks Preferences->Editor and set the font size.

And why was this thread hijacked?

> _______________________________
> 
> From: texworks on behalf of Frederick Mayer
> Sent: Wed 15/08/2012 17:01
> To: texworks at tug.org
> Subject: [texworks] Message from TeXworks user
> 
> 
> 
> I opened a Tex document with TeXworks and I don't know how to get back opening the document in standard LateX format that I'm used to. Can you tell me how to do this?
> Thanks,
>   fmayer
> 
> ----- configuration info -----
> TeXworks version : 0.4.3r858 (personal)
> Install location : /Users/fred/Desktop/MacTeX/TeXworks.app
> Library path     : /Users/fred/Library/TeXworks/
> pdfTeX location  : /usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-darwin/pdftex
> Operating system : Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun  7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386)
> Qt4 version      : 4.7.3 (build) / 4.7.3 (runtime)
> ------------------------------


Why is this person putting TeXworks in ~/Desktop/MacTeX/TeXworks when MacTeX installs one in /Applications/TeX?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)