latex-ide

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

Usage

• 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 latexmkrc to your home directory or to where your .tex file sits.
• Try it with the tex file in this repository:

$ latexmk -pvc test.tex

Synctex

• 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>

Version Numbers

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.

Deprecated

The old sources for latex-ide can be found on the branch deprecated.