[tex-live] texworks in TL 2010

T T t34www at googlemail.com
Mon Nov 15 17:29:57 CET 2010


On 13 November 2010 18:14, Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk> wrote:
> On 2010-11-13 03:40, Axel E. Retif wrote:
>>
>> Second, it seems to me you are doing a disservice to your students if
>> you think it's a big problem for them to configure an application to
>> their needs ---almost every application in every platform has a
>> ``Preferences'' or ``Options'' menu for that purpose ---you know
>> DEK's words: ``Computers are good at following instructions, but not
>> at reading your mind'' (p. 9).
>>
>
> I do not agree, as mentioned elsewhere, new users have no idea what these
> things are.
>
> I really like TL especially the net installer, there is nothing to think
> about, press next and then install and wait until it finishes. Job done.
>
> Just one little thing extra, and we would have a killer app set for new
> users.

I'm not sure if you've seen the reply from Stefan on the texworks
mailing list, but the development branch of TW already defaults to
pdflatex and this will eventually propagate to TL.

Cheers,

Tomek


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