Topic: TeXworks is an environment for authoring TeX (LaTeX, ConTeXt, etc) documents

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TeXworks is an environment for authoring TeX (LaTeX, ConTeXt, etc) documents, with a Unicode-based, TeX-aware editor, integrated PDF viewer, and a clean, simple interface accessible to casual and non-technical users.

TeXworks is a free and simple working environment for authoring TeX (LaTeX, ConTeXt and XeTeX) documents. Inspired by Dick Koch's award-winning TeXShop program for Mac OS X, it makes entry into the TeX world easier for those using desktop operating systems other than OS X. It provides an integrated, easy-to-use environment for users on other platforms particularly GNU/Linux and Windows and features a clean, simple interface accessible to casual and non-technical users.

Features

    Clean, simple interface
    Unicode-based, TeX-aware editor
    Integrated PDF viewer

Further Information

If you find any bugs/problems or have any recommendations, don't hesitate to stop by the development webpage, send a mail to the mailing list (preferably via the "Help > Email to mailing list" menu item which automatically includes some debug information), or file a bug report.

    Homepage: http://www.tug.org/texworks/
    Development: https://github.com/TeXworks/texworks
    Bugs: https://github.com/TeXworks/texworks/issues
    Mailing list: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/texworks



Introduction

The TeXworks project is an effort to build a simple TeX front-end program (working environment) that will be available for all today's major desktop operating systems—in particular, MS Windows (XP/Vista/7), typical GNU/Linux distros and other X11-based systems, as well as Mac OS X. It is deliberately modeled on Dick Koch's award-winning TeXShop for Mac OS X, which is credited with a resurgence of TeX usage on the Mac platform.

To provide a similar experience across all systems, TeXworks is based on cross-platform, open source tools and libraries. The Qt toolkit was chosen for the quality of its cross-platform user interface capabilities, with native “look and feel” on each platform being a realistic target. Qt also provides a rich application framework, facilitating the relatively rapid development of a usable product.

The normal TeXworks workflow is PDF-centric, using pdfTeX and XeTeX as typesetting engines and generating PDF documents as the default formatted output. Although it is possible to configure a processing path based on DVI, newcomers to the TeX world need not be concerned with DVI at all, but can generally treat TeX as a system that goes directly from marked-up text files to ready-to-use PDF documents.

TeXworks includes an integrated PDF viewer, based on the Poppler library, so there is no need to switch to an external program such as Acrobat, xpdf, etc., to view the typeset output. The integrated viewer also supports source/preview synchronization (e.g., control-click within the source text to locate the corresponding position in the PDF, and vice versa). This capability is based on the “SyncTeX” feature developed by Jérôme Laurens, and supported by both the pdfTeX and XeTeX programs in TeX Live and other current distributions.
Getting TeXworks

You can get stable release binaries for the following platforms:

    Microsoft Windows: TeXworks installer
    Mac OS X: TeXworks disk images
    GNU/Linux: Ubuntu, openSUSE, Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux

For the latest development versions, see Online resources.

Note that TeX Live (since version 2009) and MiKTeX (since version 2. both include TeXworks for MS Windows. For Linux, prepackaged binaries may be available through the usual channels for your distribution or are currently in preparation.

If no binaries are available for your platform, you can grab a copy of the sources and build TeXworks yourself.

http://www.tug.org/texworks/

https://github.com/TeXworks/texworks/releases

https://sourceforge.net/projects/texworks.mirror/