[texworks] texworks Digest, Vol 125, Issue 1

Moti Ben-Ari moti.ben.ari at gmail.com
Wed Mar 6 07:36:44 CET 2019 

Hi Stefan,
The link takes me to a jfrog page (whatever that is!), but I don't see a
Windows installer. Do I have to build from the source? I'm not really up to
that ...
Thank
Moti
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On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 8:34 PM <texworks-request at tug.org> wrote:

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>    1. Call for help: Testing (Stefan L?ffler)
>    2. Re: Call for help: Testing (Taylor, P)
>    3. Re: Problem with syncing between source and preview
>       (Stefan L?ffler)
>    4. Re: Call for help: Testing (Taylor, P)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 19:23:51 +0100
> From: Stefan L?ffler <st.loeffler at gmail.com>
> To: texworks at tug.org
> Subject: [texworks] Call for help: Testing
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> Dear TeXworks users,
>
> a new minor release (0.6.3) is around the corner, which will hopefully
> make it into TeXLive 2019. To get ready for that, I ask you to test the
> latest version of TeXworks. It is available at the following locations:
> Windows:
> https://bintray.com/texworks/Windows-latest/TeXworks-for-Windows%3Alatest
> Mac OS X:
> https://bintray.com/texworks/OSX-latest/TeXworks-for-Mac%3Alatest
> Ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/~texworks/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
> Source code: https://github.com/TeXworks/texworks
>
> The Windows and Mac builds come with the latest versions of libraries
> (Qt, poppler, etc.). On the TeXworks side of things, the most noteworthy
> changes to check are:
> * fixes for several bugs
> * a new "fine-grain" synchronization (i.e., using text comparison to
> synchronize not only lines but words or even single characters). Note
> that the used algorithm is known to have a hard time if you have many
> TeX commands on one source line
> * unique labels in File > Open Recent (having files a/test.tex and
> b/test.tex should be marked as such, rather than both being called
> test.tex)
> * a new Edit > "Insert Citation" dialog with BiBTeX support. To make it
> work, specify all .bib-files in a "%!TEX
> bibfile=file1.bib,file2.bib,..." modline
> * a new "Fit to content width" zoom option in the PDF previewer that
> estimates the actual content on a page (excluding margins) and zooms to
> that
> * the ability to select text in a pdf
> * PDF file size and paper size are now reported in the "Metadata" info
> panel
>
> Note that the latest version should be quite stable (obviously), but of
> course there are no guarantees (that's what this testing call is for).
> So if you are in the middle of a very important project, it might be
> advisable to stick to whichever version has already proven to work for
> you in the past.
>
> All the best,
> Stefan
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 18:28:12 +0000
> From: "Taylor, P" <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>
> To: Stefan L?ffler <st.loeffler at gmail.com>
> Cc: "TeXworks \(TeX front end\) discussion." <texworks at tug.org>
> Subject: Re: [texworks] Call for help: Testing
> Message-ID: <7e0832f5-7ecc-2070-99af-521ec34f7ec8 at Rhul.Ac.Uk>
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> Stefan L?ffler wrote:
> > Dear TeXworks users,
> >
> > a new minor release (0.6.3) is around the corner, which will hopefully
> > make it into TeXLive 2019. To get ready for that, I ask you to test the
> > latest version of TeXworks.
>
> Delighted to confirm that I will commence testing as soon as the present
> compilation of a 550+ page book is complete.? Is there, to the best of
> your knowledge, any improvement in stability when (for example) pasting
> a long log file into a new blank window ?? At the moment such actions
> cause a crash far more often than they succeed,
>
> Philip Taylor
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 19:29:33 +0100
> From: Stefan L?ffler <st.loeffler at gmail.com>
> To: texworks at tug.org
> Subject: Re: [texworks] Problem with syncing between source and
>         preview
> Message-ID: <10b6fd00-8c03-de51-d633-19fbf35fcbae at gmail.com>
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> Dear David,
>
> On 18.02.19 11:56, David Saunders wrote:
> > Suddenly, however, I have a problem syncing with one of the included
> > TeX files. When I right-click on the TeX file and select "Jump to
> > PDF", nothing happens. When I right-click on the part of the pdf
> > corresponding to that file and select "Jump to Source", I get the
> > following error message:
> >
> > Cannot read file "":
> >
> > No file name specified
> >
> > ----- configuration info ----- TeXworks version : 0.5r1361 (Debian)
> > ------------------------------
> >
> >
>
> It seems that you are using quite an old version of TeXworks. I would
> advise to update to a more recent version.
> This particular error message comes from the fact that if no
> synchronization match is found (the filename to open is empty), TeXworks
> (naturally) fails to open the file. This error is silenced in recent
> versions (since
>
> https://github.com/TeXworks/texworks/commit/ebd369c8c5cb234debac6cb7eb29655e1b08a820
> ).
>
> HTH,
> Stefan
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> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 18:32:38 +0000
> From: "Taylor, P" <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>
> To: "TeXworks (TeX front end) discussion." <texworks at tug.org>, Stefan
>         L?ffler <st.loeffler at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [texworks] Call for help: Testing
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> Taylor, P wrote:
>
> Delighted to confirm that I will commence testing as soon as the present
> compilation of a 550+ page book is complete.  Is there, to the best of
> your knowledge, any improvement in stability when (for example) pasting
> a long log file into a new blank window ?  At the moment such actions
> cause a crash far more often than they succeed.
>
> First problem ? the announcement speaks of version 0.6.3; the web site
> lists only version 7 :
>
> 0.7-201903050630-git_d26c? <
> https://bintray.com/texworks/Windows-latest/TeXworks-for-Windows%3Alatest/0.7-201903050630-git_d26c46b
> >
> <
> http://twitter.com/share?text=Version+0.7-201903050630-git_d26c46b+of+TeXworks-for-Windows%3Alatest+has+been+released%21+Grab+it+now+from+%23bintray+https%3A%2F%2Fbintray.com%2Ftexworks%2FWindows-latest%2FTeXworks-for-Windows%253Alatest%2F0.7-201903050630-git_d26c46b%21
> >
> 0.7-201903042025-git_a747? <
> https://bintray.com/texworks/Windows-latest/TeXworks-for-Windows%3Alatest/0.7-201903042025-git_a747887
> >
> 0.7-201903041932-git_e829? <
> https://bintray.com/texworks/Windows-latest/TeXworks-for-Windows%3Alatest/0.7-201903041932-git_e829d1b
> >
> 0.7-201903041841-git_2912? <
> https://bintray.com/texworks/Windows-latest/TeXworks-for-Windows%3Alatest/0.7-201903041841-git_2912093
> >
> 0.7-201903041752-git_0415? <
> https://bintray.com/texworks/Windows-latest/TeXworks-for-Windows%3Alatest/0.7-201903041752-git_0415df4
> >
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> Philip Taylor
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