Compilers

You need to install one of these compilers externally first! (even if using vs code!)

latex, 1990s
pdflatex, 2000s
xelatex, modern
lualatex, modern

Online Editor

Overleaf software was conceived by John Hammersley and John Lees-Miller, who started developing it in 2011.

• Online collaborative latex editor for scientific writing
• Beta released Jan 2014
• Merged with ShareLaTeX in 2017
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overleaf

Neovim

There is no plugin support. Might be able to use some markdown rendering plugin?

VS Code

Plugin - https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=James-Yu.latex-workshop

• By default, it uses latexmk (pdflatex compiler).
  • You need to change the settings.json default recipe...
• Maintained by a professor in China

Terminal

1. On Mac, install basictex (smaller distro of MacTeX).
   • includes TeX, LaTeX, pdfTeX, MetaFont, dvips, MetaPost, and XeTeX.
2. Also, install skim pdf viewer for ability to autoreload pdf when changed.
3. Install latexmk, but might be already installed?

   ### Install Dependencies
   $ brew install --cask basictex skim
   $ sudo tlmgr install latexmk # latex tool
   $ echo "$pdf_previewer = 'open -a Skim';" >> ~/.latexmkrc
   

You can either compile using helper package latexmk or calling the compiler directly.

### Compile/Generate PDF
$ latexmk -lualatex -pvc -view=pdf -outdir=build document.tex
$ lualatex document.tex && latexmk -c

### Remove auxillary files
$ latexmk -xelatex -c 
$ latexmk -c