[texworks] Mac OS X: request for testing

Joseph Wright joseph.wright at morningstar2.co.uk
Fri Feb 26 19:47:17 CET 2016


On 26/02/2016 15:19, Stefan Löffler wrote:
> Things to check:
> 1) Scripts > Scripting... > About scripts should list Lua. If it says
> "disabled", please enable it under Edit > Preferences... > Scripts >
> Enable plugin scripting languages. Then run Scripts > Make bold (lua),
> which should print "\textbf{}". If you have plugins disabled before,
> disable them again in the preferences.

Works as described.

> 2) Download and open
> https://github.com/TeXworks/texworks/raw/master/testcases/base14-fonts.pdf
> in the new TeXworks - it should show a text message in different fonts
> (see
> https://github.com/TeXworks/texworks/blob/master/testcases/base14-fonts.png
> for reference)
> 
> 3) Download and open
> https://github.com/TeXworks/texworks/raw/master/testcases/poppler-data.pdf
> in the new TeXworks - it should show lots of Kanji ("Chinese")
> characters. (see
> https://github.com/TeXworks/texworks/blob/master/testcases/poppler-data.png
> for reference)

Both look fine.

> Finally, please send me a mail specifying
>  * Your Mac OS X version

OS X 10.9.5

>  * what worked / didn't work

All looks OK :-)

>  * in case TeXworks crashes (which I hope it doesn't), 

Not thus far!

> If this works, there is a pretty good chance to have a regularly
> updated, recent version of TeXworks for Mac :).

Excellent news: many thanks for this. Particularly handy for those of us
working on mixed platforms :-)

Joseph




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