Have one command that spawns a pdf viewer and an editor and automatically compiles the tex file when it changes.
latexmk can do everything I want. Just use the latexmkrc in this repository.
- latexmk supports out-of-source builds
- latexmk -pvc supports watching for file changes and automatically runs pdflatex
- by specifying two programs as
$pdf_previewer, latexmk spawns the pdf viewer and the editor. I set it up so that they can talk to each other via synctex. - multiple instances for different tex files are supported by using vim's --servername feature.
- mklatex knows how to find .bst and .bib files in subdirectories
- mklatex -pvc monitors all dependencies, including .bib files, includes, and even style files, and initiates a build if any of them changes
- use texfot for filtering the output of pdflatex
- Have a tex distribution with latexmk installed. I use texlive on debian. It installs latexmk by default.
- Have zathura and gvim installed
- Copy the file
latexmkrcto your home directory or to where your .tex file sits. - Try it with the tex file in this repository:
$ latexmk -pvc test.tex
- Ctrl-click on the pdf to jump to the source location in vim.
- For jumping to the pdf location from the source code, have the following in your vimrc:
function! SyncTexForward()
let execstr = "silent !zathura --synctex-forward " . line('.') . ":" . col('.') . ":" . bufname('%') . " " . g:tex_pdf_output_file
exec execstr
endfunction
nmap <Leader>f :call SyncTexForward()<CR><C-l>
The pdflatex command generates a file version.tex in the _build directory
that contains the current git hash. See test.tex for how to use it.
The old sources for latex-ide can be found on the branch deprecated.