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The TeXworks project is an effort to build a simple TeX front-end program
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(working environment) that will be available for all todays major desktop
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operating systems-in particular, MS Windows (XP/Vista/7), typical GNU/Linux
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distros and other X11-based systems, as well as Mac OS X. It is deliberately
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modeled on Dick Koch's award-winning TeXShop for Mac OS X, which is credited
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with a resurgence of TeX usage on the Mac platform.
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To provide a similar experience across all systems, TeXworks is based on
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cross-platform, open source tools and libraries. The Qt toolkit was chosen
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for the quality of its cross-platform user interface capabilities, with
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native "look and feel" on each platform being a realistic target. Qt also
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provides a rich application framework, facilitating the relatively rapid
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development of a usable product.
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The normal TeXworks workflow is PDF-centric, using pdfTeX and XeTeX as
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typesetting engines and generating PDF documents as the default formatted
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output. Although it is possible to configure a processing path based on DVI,
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newcomers to the TeX world need not be concerned with DVI at all, but can
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generally treat TeX as a system that goes directly from marked-up text files
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to ready-to-use PDF documents.
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