thomasjo

Compile LaTeX or knitr documents from within Atom

218 Stars 46 Forks Last release: over 2 years ago (v0.50.0) MIT License 1.3K Commits 79 Releases

Available items

No Items, yet!

The developer of this repository has not created any items for sale yet. Need a bug fixed? Help with integration? A different license? Create a request here:

Readme

LaTeX package

Name: atom-latex
Brand: atom-latex
SKU: //thomasjo/atom-latex
Rating: 2.295 (218 reviews)

$Build Status$ $Dependency Status$ $devDependency Status$

Compile LaTeX, knitr, literate Agda, literate Haskell, or Pweave documents from within Atom.

Installing

Use the Atom package manager and search for "latex", or run

apm install latex

from the command line.

Prerequisites

TeX distribution

A reasonably up-to-date and working TeX distribution is required. The only officially supported distributions are TeX Live, and MiKTeX. Although, the latter is not as well tested and supported as TeX Live, hence using TeX Live is highly recommended.

You need to ensure that the package can find your TeX distribution's binaries; by default the package uses your

PATH

environment variable, as well as the following search paths on Linux and macOS

```
/usr/texbin
```
```
/Library/TeX/texbin
```

and on Windows it uses

```
%SystemDrive%\texlive\2017\bin\win32
```
```
%SystemDrive%\texlive\2016\bin\win32
```
```
%SystemDrive%\texlive\2015\bin\win32
```

%ProgramFiles%\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64

%ProgramFiles(x86)%\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin

If your TeX distribution's binaries are not installed in one of those locations or discoverable via the

PATH

environment variable, you will need to help the package find the binaries. This can be done by setting the TeX Path configuration option to point to the folder containing the binaries, either in the settings view, or directly in your

config.cson

file. See Configuration for further details regarding the settings of this package.

Syntax Highlighting

In order for this package to behave as expected, your Atom environment must contain a package that provides a LaTeX grammar. We suggest language-latex, but other valid options might exist. Additional syntax packages may be required to build document types other than LaTeX. For more details see Builder Capabilities below.

Builder Selection

The

latex

package provides access to two automatic builders for LaTeX and knitr documents. By default the package will use

latexmk

for LaTeX documents and an included builder to prepare knitr documents for

latexmk

. In this case an up to date installation of

latexmk

is required. If you're using TeX Live then you need only insure that

latexmk

is installed and up to date using the appropriate package manager. If you're using MikTeX then see how to use

latexmk

with MiKTeX.

The JavaScript based DiCy builder may also be used for all documents by selecting the

Use DiCy

option in the settings page. DiCy will be installed automatically and so no further action is required for either TeX Live or MiKTeX.

Builder Capabilities

Document types other than LaTeX documents may be processed by this package. The availability and behavior of this feature depends upon the specific builder selected. The following table details the different types of documents that may be processed by each builder and any additional syntax package requirements.

| Document Type | latexmk based Builder | DiCy Builder | Required Language Packages | |------------------|-----------------------|--------------|---------------------------------------| | LaTeX | Yes | Yes | language-latex | | knitr | Yes | Yes | language-r and language-knitr | | literate Agda | No preprocessing | Yes | language-agda | | literate Haskell | No preprocessing | Yes | language-haskell | | Pweave | No | Yes | language-weave |

Usage

The

latex:build

command can be invoked from the LaTex menu or by pressing the default keybind ctrl-alt-b while in a LaTex or knitr file. Log messages and any other messages from the build may be seen in the LaTeX log panel accessible from the status bar.

The

latex

package supports other commands as detailed in the table below.

| Command | Keybinding | Use | |:----------------------|:-------------------------------------------:|:-------------------------------------------------------------------------| |

latex:build

| ctrl-alt-b | Build LaTeX/knitr file and open result. | |

latex:rebuild

| None | Force a rebuild of LaTeX/knitr file. | |

latex:clean

| ctrl-alt-c | Cleanup files after a build. | |

latex:kill

| None | Terminate currently running build. Also available from status indicator. | |

latex:sync

| ctrl-alt-s | Use SyncTeX forward if possible from the current cursor position. | |

latex:sync-log

| None | Display and highlight log messages from the current cursor position. | |

latex:check-runtime

| None | Check for the existence of

latexmk

Rscript

and PDF/PS/DVI viewers. |

Overriding Build Settings

Many of the build settings in the settings page of the

latex

package can be overridden on a per file basis. One way to override specific build settings is to use "magic" TeX comments in the form of

% !TEX  =

. Another way is to use a YAML formatted file with the same name as your root LaTeX file, but with an extension of

.yaml

. The settings and values that can overridden via either method are listed in the table below. If multiple setting names are listed then the first is preferred and following names are available for compatibility. More details can found at Overridding Build Settings.

| Name | Value | Use | |:----------------------------------------|:-----------------------------------------------|:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |

cleanPatterns

| comma separated patterns, e.g.

**/*.blg, foo

| Specify patterns to use for

latex:clean

| |

enableSynctex

yes

no

true

false

| Override SyncTeX setting | |

enableExtendedBuildMode

yes

no

true

false

| Override extended build mode setting | |

enableShellEscape

yes

no

true

false

| Override shell escape setting | |

engine

program

pdflatex

lualatex

, etc. | Override the LaTeX engine to use for build. | |

moveResultToSourceDirectory

yes

no

true

false

| Override move result to source directory setting | |

outputFormat

format

dvi

ps

pdf

| Override the output format | |

jobNames

jobnames

jobname

| comma separated names, e.g.

foo, bar

| Control the number and names of build jobs. Only a single name can be used for

jobname

. | |

outputDirectory

output_directory

| directory path, e.g.

build

| Specify the output directory that should be used. | |

producer

dvipdf

dvipdfmx

xdvipdfmx

ps2pdf

| Override the PDF producer | |

root

| file path, e.g.

../file.tex

| Specify the root file that should be built. Only available via "magic" TeX comments. |

There are additional settings that may be configured for the DiCy builder that may not be accessible from this package's setting page, but can be set via a YAML options file or TeX magic comments. For more details please see Options and Configuration in the DiCy documentation.

PDF/DVI/PS Viewers

The

latex

package currently supports Atril, Evince, Okular, pdf-view, Preview, Skim, Sumatra PDF, Windows shell open, xdg-open, Xreader and Zathura as PDF/DVI/PS viewers. This includes support for cursor synchronization via SyncTeX if possible. Specific features of each of the viewers is detailed at Supported Viewers.

Development status

Please note that this package is in a beta state. It is stable, but lacks some important features.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

NOTE:

latexmk

does not support file paths containing special characters such as

. To partially circumvent this, add

useRelativePaths: true

to your config file like so ```cson

config.cson

"*": latex: useRelativePaths: true ``

When set, this package will use a relative path in place of an absolute one. This will allow

latexmk` to compile projects stored in directories that contain special characters. Note that the project itself must not contain special characters in its directory or file names.

This feature has not been fully tested yet, and there are no guarantees it will work in all cases. Please raise an issue if you find a case where it fails.

atom-latex

by thomasjo