TeXworks is a utility designed to allow users to work with TeX files. With this tool, you will be able to create and edit LaTeX documents. The program provides some of the most popular features found in multipurpose editors like syntax highlighting and the possibility of extending the program's set of functions via scripts. TeXworks is distributed as an open-source project, making it completely free. It is made available for multiple operating systems including Mac OS X, Windows and Linux distributions.
You can use TeXworks to generate PDF types of files. The utility includes a PDF viewer which offers the possibility of previewing the output.
Integrated templates allow users to quickly create basic LaTeX documents, Beamer presentations and XeLaTeX files.
The built-in search function includes support for regular expressions.
Overall, this is powerful and flexible TeX editor. But considering that this typesetting system is mainly used for creating academic papers, the range of user appeal is quite limited.
v0.4 [Aug 16, 2011]
* Fix crash caused by Qt when adding lines at the beginning of a document
* Fix search/replace for multi-line strings
* Work around layout issues which cause lines to disappear
* Fix building with BSD make
* Fix block selection of last paragraph
* Fix overwrite of "Find all occurrences" option
* Improve "Unable to execute..." error dialog
* Rename "Show/Hide Output Panel" to "Show/Hide Console Output" in the menu
and the preferences dialog
* Remove subject and add instructions to body of the "email to mailinglist"
* Bring the window running TeX to the top at the beginning of typesetting to
ensure that the console output is visible
* Allow symlinks and display only folders in "path for programs" in the
preferences dialog
* Add "Clear Recent Files" to "Open Recent" menu
* Add an autocompletion entry to the preferences dialog
* Add Lua(La)TeX to the default tools (and drop LaTeXmk by default)
* Add an option to open log files
* Add CMake support (experimental)
* Update SyncTeX to version 1.17
* Update URLs to http://www.tug.org/texworks/
* Some enhancements to functions available to scripting
* Avoid showing an empty message box for script results
* Resolve symlinks when looking for scripts
* Expose the scripts' titles, authors, filenames, etc. to scripting
* Update/improve scripts: open pdf in default viewer, derive spellchecking
language from babel package, log parser
