URL:
<http://gna.org/task/?5996>
Summary: Submission of TeXworks
Project: Gna! Administration
Submitted by: jfkew
Submitted on: Thursday 05/29/2008 at 21:19
Status: None
Approval Status: None
Should Start On: Thursday 05/29/2008 at 00:00
Should be Finished on: Sunday 06/08/2008 at 00:00
Category: Project Approval
Priority: 5 - Normal
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
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Details:
A new project has been registered at Gna!
This project account will remain inactive until a site admin approves or
discards the registration.
= Registration Administration =
While this item will be useful to track the registration process, *approving
or discarding the registration must be done using the specific Group
Administration <https://gna.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=2664> page*,
accessible only to site administrators, effectively *logged as site
administrators* (superuser):
* Group Administration
<https://gna.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=2664>
= Registration Details =
* Name: *TeXworks*
* System Name: *texworks*
* Type: Programs
* License: GNU General Public License V2 or later
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==== Description: ====
Project: TeXworks, a simple environment for authoring TeX documents
One of the most successful TeX interfaces in recent years has been Dick
Koch's award-winning TeXShop on Mac OS X. A large part of its success has
been due to its relative simplicity, which has invited users to begin working
with the system without baffling them with options or cluttering their screen
with controls and buttons they don't understand. It also uses a PDF-based
workflow, producing a familiar and widely-supported output format rather than
a TeX-specific format requiring special tools to view or print.
Experienced users may prefer environments with more advanced editing features
and project management, but the simplicity of the TeXShop model has much to
recommend it for the new or occasional user.
But TeXShop is built on Mac OS X-specific technologies; on other platforms;
there are many TeX editors and environments, but none with this particular
focus. TeXworks is therefore a new project that aims to provide a simple TeX
environment based on modern standards -- including Unicode encoding and PDF
output by default -- with an uncluttered interface that does not overwhelm
the newcomer.
It is built using cross-platform, open-source tools and libraries, so as to
be available on all today's major operating systems, with a native "look and
feel" for each.
A current snapshot of the development source (largely working, but unfinished
in parts) is temporarily posted at
http://www.jfkew.plus.com/texworks-src.tar.gz
==== Other Software Required: ====
The libraries used are usually available in free software environments at
least as optional packages:
- qt4
- poppler
- hunspell (possibly adopting enchant in future)
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