texworks with context on linux

[Alex Lubberts <alex@lubberts.org>]

Hi,

Yesterday I wanted to try out texworks for editing and typesetting my
context documents. I installed texworks from the ubuntu launchpad ppa
since '--goodies=texworks' doesn't work on linux-64, yet.

Then I ran into a few problems:

* The script mtx-texworks.lua wasn't able to start texworks because
"unable to locate texworks". In the loop that's searching all the
binpaths I put in 'logs.simple("%s",p)' and found out that binpaths
only consists of one element: the complete PATH variable. I guess it
means that there's something wrong with the function file.split_path,
but I don't understand what's happening there. When I replaced the
loop with 'p="/usr/bin/texworks"' texworks started as expected.

* However the typesetting engines were not correctly set up. Texworks
(at least on linux) seems to be looking for a file TeXworks.ini. The
one in the minimals distribution is called texworks.ini. Renaming this
solved it...

* ... almost. In the TeXworks.ini file I also had to replace all
occurunces of 'mtxrun.cmd' (doesn't work on linux, is this correct for
Windows?) with 'mtxrun'.

I wish I could help solve these points, but since I'm not much of a
programmer I cannot solve the first issue, and the other are just a
matter of renaming/replacing??

Regards,
Alex

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Alex Lubberts <alex@lubberts.org>
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