[texworks] MiKTex version; and TeXworks help - and an open communication channel?

[Paul A Norman]

HI,

Does this project have an open communication channel with the MikTeX
developers?

Obviously, due to TexWorks' Menu:  Help/ Email to the Mailing List  item,
traffic is received here from their Users,
but sometimes peculiar to the MikTeX developers' modifications.

One of which is that *help* does not seem to ship with their version, it
seems not even the TeXworks manual(-s languages) I think(?).

Jonathan Kew kindly posted here sometime ago saying how other customised
helps in html format can be placed in a folder called  *texworks-help* (in
their own sub-folders) under the TeXworks exe

In the case of MiKTex I found that unlike the completion, configuration,
scripts and etc folders, which have their own location here:

\LaTeXPortable\LatexUtils\miktex-21.8-x64-portable\texmfs\data\TeXworks\0.6

Under MiKTex  TeXworks help could not be placed alongside  completion,
configuration, scripts and etc folders as in a true "factory" version
release of TeXworks, but  \texworks-help\  needed still to be placed
directly alongside the TeXworks exe as in...

\LaTeXPortable\LatexUtils\miktex-21.8-x64-portable\texmfs\install\miktex\bin\x64\texworks-help

So under there  *\texworks-help*   at present I successfully have

*\texworks-help*
├───framestHelp
│   └───en
│
├───scripting
│   └───en
├───*TeXworks-manual*
│   ├───en
│   │   └───images
│   ├───es
│   └───fr
└───uk-faq
    └───en

*Each language folder (en, es, or fr etc) having their own
tw-help-title.txt file with the desired menu caption inside. *

So my (texworks.exe)  *./texworks-help/framesetHelp/en/tw-help-title.txt*
file has the text in it (literally): "Some Latex Information"
for example.

And these now niceley all appear on my MiKTex TeXworks help menu now...

[image: image.png]

Now I suspect that may all be *working by accident* under MiKTeX's version
of TeXworks?
And I wonder what will happen when I update MiKTex and it touches their
TeXworks installation :-)

Of course with an OpenSource project, like TeXworks, MiKTeX are absolutely
free and welcome to do whatever they wish with their own releases.

However I do wonder whether a dialogue would be profitable between these
two projects,
to see if some sort of ongoing common arrangement over such things might
not be worthwhilely forged?

Kindest regards,
Paul
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