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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Paul,<br>
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On 02.07.19 09:10, Paul A Norman wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Make a plain text file in the directory where you
have unzipped TeXworks into (before running it for the first
time)<br>
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<div>texworks-setup.ini</div>
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<div>All looks good so far - is that approach still stable?</div>
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Yes, this hasn't changed in a while and should still work as
before/as documented.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02.07.19 09:12, Paul A Norman wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">P.S. its probably best (mandatory?) to make the
./config folder/diretory first.<br>
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Yes, creating the directory is required. Tw checks if the
directories exist and only use them if they do
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/TeXworks/texworks/blob/9c8cc8b88505103cb8f43fe4105638c77c7e7303/src/TWApp.cpp#L132-L142">https://github.com/TeXworks/texworks/blob/9c8cc8b88505103cb8f43fe4105638c77c7e7303/src/TWApp.cpp#L132-L142</a>).<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12.07.19 02:50, Paul A Norman wrote:<br>
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<div>I was wondering if the manual entry:</div>
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<h3 class="gmail-sectionHead" style="margin:1.26316em 0px
0px;font-size:1.26667em;line-height:1.26316em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times
New
Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span
class="gmail-titlemark">5.7<span> </span></span>Changing the
configuration</h3>
<div>might do well to have specific reference to <i>Portable
Usage</i>, perhaps after something like this?...<br>
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Good idea. You can get the TeX source code for the manual from
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/TeXworks/manual">https://github.com/TeXworks/manual</a> - would you mind proposing a
specific edit?<br>
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<h3 class="gmail-sectionHead" style="margin:1.26316em 0px
0px;font-size:1.26667em;line-height:1.26316em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times
New
Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span
class="gmail-titlemark">5.7<span> </span></span>Portable
Usage and Changing the Configuration</h3>
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<div>And also what the status on this mention - under that
section was please?</div>
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<p class="gmail-indent" style="margin:0px 0px 0px
80px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6em;text-align:justify;text-indent:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times
New
Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">One
can also add a line<span> </span>like</p>
<div class="gmail-fancyvrb" id="gmail-fancyvrb16"
style="padding:5.16667pt;border-top:0.4pt
solid;border-bottom:0.4pt
solid;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New
Roman";font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin-left:80px"><span
class="ec-lmtt-10x-x-109"
style="font-size:13.5px;font-family:monospace">defaultbinpaths=C:/Program</span><span
class="ec-lmtt-10x-x-109"
style="font-size:13.5px;font-family:monospace"> Files/MiKTeX</span><span
class="ec-lmtt-10x-x-109"
style="font-size:13.5px;font-family:monospace"> 2.7/miktex/bin</span></div>
<p class="gmail-noindent" style="margin:0px 0px 0px
80px;font-size:15px;line-height:1.6em;text-align:justify;text-indent:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times
New
Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">to
specify where the programmes of the T<sub>E</sub>X
distribution are located; but <i>this instruction is not
yet completely operational</i>, <u><b>especially under
Windows</b></u>.</p>
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So far, texworks-setup.ini does not use sections - it only supports
three settings (inipath, libpath, defaultbinpaths).<br>
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HTH,<br>
Stefan<br>
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