Download TeXworks 0.4.6

Two years after version 0.4.5, version 0.4.6 of TeXworks has now been released. TeXworks is an open source and cross platform frontend for TeX, a way of formatting documents. The program is modeled on TeXShop, a program for OS X. TeXworks generates documents in PDF format and has a built-in PDF viewer based on the poppler library. The changelog for version 0.4.6 can be found below.

Release 0.4.6 (TL’15)

• Implement character-level synchronization by using text searching to assist SyncTeX
• Lift hardwrap line length limitation and implement (hard) unwrap
• Always show console output tab while typesetting to show progress
• Improve the handling of UTF-8 byte order marks
• Improve the log parsing script
• Improve the handling of script errors
• Work around a race condition that causes lines to become invisible, subsequently leading to a crash
• Fix incorrectly accumulating indent
• Fix SyncTeX initialization with non-ASCII filenames
• Fix selection of whole lines and when selecting right-to-left
• Fix hangs and crashes when using “Fit to …” in the PDF view
• Fix a crash when running an invalid system command from scripts
• Fix encoding issues when reading environment variables
• Fix scrolling when searching for multi-line strings
• Fix auto-completion when working with RTL languages
• Improve the handling of Retina displays in Mac OS X
• Fix a crash when opening PDF files from the Windows Explorer
• Provide texworks.appdata.xml for *nix platforms
• Fix compilation with Qt 5
• Improve the CMake build system
• Add support for Lua 5.2
• Move development from Google Code to GitHub