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texworks(1)

texworks1

A simple tex front-end program

Usage

texworks [OPTIONS] [FILES]

Overview

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.

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

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).

History

  • Arch Linux 2026-11-01: the text shown here
  • Debian 13 (Trixie)
  • Debian 12 (Bookworm)
  • Debian 11 (Bullseye)
  • Debian 10 (Buster)
  • Debian 9 (Stretch)
  • Debian 8 (Jessie)
  • Debian 7 (Wheezy)
  • Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)

--help since Debian 7 (Wheezy); --version since Debian 7 (Wheezy); -? since Debian 7 (Wheezy); -v since Debian 7 (Wheezy).

Bugs

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

Authors

Stefan Löffler, Jonathan Kew, Charlie Sharpsteen, and others

From texworks 0.6.11-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.