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Sorry this is a little vague, I'm totally baffled by it. I've been using TexWorks intensively for a few years. I just upgraded it from 0.4.3 to 0.4.5. Now the text in the editor appears in ALL CAPS, in a bizarre font. When I compile my document, the output is correct (i.e. mixed case) - even though ALL the words appear in CAPS in the editor. Which makes it utterly unuseable. I'm so baffled I don't even know where to start. Can anyone point me a little bit in the right direction? On a related note, my frustration with TexWorks has been building enormously in recent months - is this still a reasonable tool to use, or has it been supersided by something much better these days? Any and all pointers greatly appreciated.

Werner
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  • There is a strong emacs gang lurking in the site and they will say "Use emacs" ;) –  Jun 06 '14 at 01:53
  • Is this one file or all files? If one, I would first check the file in a text editor such as vim. (Or emacs if you insist. ;) More seriously, any plain text editor - nano, pico, gedit, whatever Windows has... Check the file encoding etc. If it is all files, I would either switch editors (since you seem to fancy a change) or backup the config for TW and see if the problem occurs with a non-customised run. That will at least help to narrow the problem down. – cfr Jun 06 '14 at 02:19
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    And which font does the editor use and did you try to change it? (imho under format ->font or something like this) – Ulrike Fischer Jun 06 '14 at 07:28
  • For something different see the answers to this question – Thruston Jun 06 '14 at 07:55
  • @ulrike-fischer Format->font fixed that, thanks, I didn't try that b/c I figured there's no ALL-CAPS font. – EdB Jun 06 '14 at 10:17
  • @Thruston Thanks, that's exactly what I did, and I switched to texstudio. I guess one should set aside a fraction of his worktime to revisit the choice of tools. My main frustration with TexWorks, I may be crazy, but I swear when I make a syntax error and get a fail-to-compile, then correct the error back to the previous known-good-state (as proven by a diff), TexWorks still fails to compile, until I exit it and remove the aux files. A real productivity-killer, und es treibt mich in den Wahnsinn. Thanks so much. – EdB Jun 06 '14 at 10:27
  • That problem is independent of your editor. Sometimes you do need to remove aux files (or similar) to proceed. However, I don't have to exit my editor to remove them and I wonder whether TS really requires this. – cfr Jun 06 '14 at 11:06
  • @cfr Thanks for that. 2 days on TecStudio & it's much better. Recently on TexWorks it's been like chipping away at a block of granite, for equations and tables - type a line, make error, remove it, TexWorks refuses, try 45 minutes to regain last-known-good, remove aux files, start over. I was at the point of backing up my .tex file every 15 minutes! I mayn't be able to prove it, but I'm convinced TexWorks is very, very unstable WRT LaTex errors. In any case, TexStudio is considerably more sophisticated and robust, with much better error reporting and error recovery. Thanks for the tips. – EdB Jun 07 '14 at 14:48
  • That indeed sounds a pain. I hope TS works out better. I actually tried it the other day as Kile kept crashing. However, my preference is Kile as I like the built-in command line! – cfr Jun 07 '14 at 20:39

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