texworks
I am completely new to TexWorks, and just downloaded it on windows 10.
Everything is fine except that when I open it, only the editor window shows, and there is no pdf preview window. For some reason, I can’t find any option to show the window. So basically my texworks is just the text editor and nothing else.
Is there any way I can manually set to show the preview window? or do I just reinstall everything again?
Thanks so much in advance for your responses.
I don't think that TeXworks can show a dvi. So if you change your document and compile only to dvi TeXworks will still show the pdf of the previous version. You will have to add dvips + ps2pdf or dvipdfmx to the call to latex.
Here is a step by step description.
Make sure the amstex package is installed in MiKTeX
Open TeXworks and choose the "Preferences" menu
Go to the "Typesetting" tab and this window will appear; click on the "+" button in the lower half
Fill the window as follows
In order to add the lines in the "Arguments" field, click on the "+" button.
Click OK in this window and in the Preferences window.
Choose "amstex" from the drop down menu
Click the "Typeset" button (the green one).
Enjoy AMS-TeX in flamboyant PDF format.
Here's the final picture
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Strictly speaking there are not really any "pre-view" but a "post-view". Probably this leads to think that there are something wrong in your installation, but probably is working fine.
When you start
texworksempty or with a new file, saidsomefile.texfile, there are no any "preview" window simply because still there are nothing rendered to show.But once you compile successfully that new file (green upper-left buttom) with the right compiler (after selecting
pdfLaTeXor whatevercompatible with that file) and thesomefile.pdfis created, then the "preview" must appear to the right of the editor window.If you close
texworksand run againtexworks somefile.texnow the preview window is opened immediately at the start since the PDFsomefile.pdfalready exist in the same directory.If you close the preview window but not the editor you can open again the preview with a new compilation or (without compiling again) in the menu
Window > Preview. If the preview is open but hidden by the editor window or another program, this orWindow > somefile.pdfalso will put the focus in the preview window. Of course, this cannot work if you move/delete the PDF file meanwhile.