texworks - a simple TeX front-end program

Authors

       Stefan Löffler, Jonathan Kew, Charlie Sharpsteen, and others

Bugs

       If you find a bug, please report it at https://github.com/TeXworks/texworks/issues

Copyright

       Copyright (C) 2007-2025  Stefan Löffler, Jonathan Kew, Charlie Sharpsteen

       License GPLv2+: GNU GPL (version 2 or later) <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to  the  extent
       permitted by law.

                                                                                                     TEXWORKS(1)

Description

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.

       It is inspired by Dick Koch's award-winning TeXShop  program  for  Mac  OS  X,  which  has  made  quality
       typesetting  through  TeX  accessible  to a wider community of users, without a technical or intimidating
       face. The goal of TeXworks is to deliver a similarly integrated, easy-to-use  environment  for  users  on
       other platforms, especially GNU/Linux and Windows.

Environment

       TW_INIPATH
              Overrides the location of the preferences file.

       TW_LIBPATH
              Overrides the location of the additional configuration and library files.

       TW_DICPATH
              Overrides the location of dictionary files.

       TW_HELPPATH
              Overrides the location of help files.

       TW_PLUGINPATH
              Overrides the location of plugins.

Files

~/.config/TUG/TeXworks.conf
              Text file to store the preferences.

       ~/.TeXworks/*
              Additional configuration and library files (e.g. for auto completion, templates, etc.).

       /usr/local/bin/texworks-setup.ini
              Setup  file  to  override  the  location  of the files mentioned above (e.g. for enabling portable
              operation).

Name

texworks - a simple TeX front-end program

Options

--help,-?
              Display a short overview over all command line options

       --position=,-p
              Open the next specified file at the given position (line or page)

       --version,-v
              Display version information