VS Code LaTeX Devcontainer

Devcontainer using LaTeX with VS Code featuring

Common LaTeX plugins
Github and Gitlab CI
one-click arXiv export
one-click PDF URL check

Note: No local LaTeX installation is needed, however, VS Code and Docker need to be installed to use this.

Usage

Step by Step:

Install VS Code Devcontainer extension ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers

Clone repo or add submodule with path .devcontainer into your project

git clone https://github.com/a-nau/latex-devcontainer.git .devcontainer
git submodule add https://github.com/a-nau/latex-devcontainer.git .devcontainer

Press F1 (or CTRL + SHIFT + P) and select Dev Containers: Rebuild and Reopen Container
(optional) rename main Texfile to root.tex or adjust CI configs if you want to use the CIs
Commit the files copied during the Devcontainer setup (settings.json, .gitlab-ci.yml, latex_build.yml)
If you do not see the following latex command menu, try reloading the window

Credits

Uses the danteev/texlive Docker image as base: MIT License
Uses arxiv-latex-cleaner: Apache 2.0 License
Uses pdf-link-checker: MIT License
Uses cvpr-latex-template as example for the .gif

Unless stated otherwise, this project is licensed under the MIT license.