TeXworks on OS X

The aim of this project is to ease building and developing TeXworks (GitHub repository) on OS X.

Goals

• Simplify building TeXworks on OS X, focusing on OS X 10.9 and above.
• Provide an environment that makes it easier to contribute to TeXworks, thereby improving the experience on OS X.

Status

This project is a work in progress. As it gets closer to reaching its goals, its documentation will be expanded and it will open up to external contributors.

Known Issues

• The Poppler libraries built by tw-poppler-qt4.rb and tw-poppler-qt5.rb contain a hard-coded path to the Poppler data that resides in the Homebrew prefix. Thus, built application bundles are not truly portable to other machines.

Qt 4 Build

• While still being functional, Qt 4 is no longer in active development. This results in various visual glitches and many smaller annoyances in recent OS X releases and on systems with a Retina Display.

Qt 5 Build

• Closing all windows removes the “Quit TeXworks” menu item from the TeXworks menu. Quitting TeXworks is still possible via, e.g., the menu of the Dock icon.

• The toolbar control for selecting the typesetting tool shows visual artifacts. Functionality is not affected.

• The proxy icon in both the source and PDF preview window titles is not functional. It neither shows the correct path in the context menu nor can it be dragged.

License

Code is under the BSD 2 Clause (NetBSD) license.