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TeXworks

TeX editor

TeX editor

FieldValue
nameTeXworks
logoTeXworks icon 128.png
screenshotTeXworks.png
screenshot size220px
developerJonathan Kew
Stefan Löffler
Charlie Sharpsteen
released
latest release version0.6.10
latest release date
operating systemCross-platform
languageMultilingual
genreTeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, XeTeX editor
licenseGPL-2.0-or-later
website**TeXworks**

Stefan Löffler Charlie Sharpsteen

TeXworks is free and open-source application software, available for Windows, Linux and macOS. It is a Qt-based graphical user interface to the TeX typesetting system and its LaTeX, ConTeXt, and XeTeX extensions. TeXworks is targeted at direct generation of PDF output. It has a built-in PDF viewer using the poppler library; the viewer has auto-refresh capability, and also features SyncTeX support (which allows the user to synchronize the PDF viewer position with the source, and vice versa with a single click).

The developer of TeXworks is Jonathan Kew (who also developed XeTeX), who deliberately modelled TeXworks on Richard Koch’s award-winning TeXShop software for macOS to lower the entry barrier to the TeX world for those using desktop operating systems other than macOS. Kew argued against complex user interfaces like that of TeXnicCenter or Kile, which he described as intimidating for new users.

TeXworks requires a TeX installation: TeX Live,{{cite web | access-date = 2009-10-18 | archive-date = 2011-05-31 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110531211912/https://www.tug.org/texlive/devsrc/Master/texmf/doc/texlive/ | url-status = dead

One limitation of TeXworks is, that it does not by itself support multi-stage typesetting, like, for example, PNG or SVG output via intermediate DVI. This is a design choice, because such workflows are considered too advanced for the beginning user. The user has to write a shell or batch script to use such workflows with TeXworks.

References

References

  1. "TeXworks".
  2. First 5 minutes of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-Z43CSPgM0
  3. MiKTeX-based alternative distribution for Windows: proTeXt
  4. Peter Hertel. (2011). "Arbeitsbuch Mathematik Zur Physik". Springer-Verlag.
  5. (16 January 2012). "TeXworks: A user friendly LaTeX editor".
  6. "[texworks] dvi -> dvips -> ps2pdf".
  7. "TeXworks".
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