latex-formatter README

LaTex-Formatter is a simple VSCode tool for the LaTex - Language

Requirements

• Ubuntu or Windows
• latex-formatter requires a latexindent.pl installation

Installation guide

TexDistro - Package manager

For MiKTeX and TeXLive is a package available.

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Reference for the following guides: latexindent.pl - Documentation

Windows

1. go to latexindent.pl and download latexindent.exe, defaultSettings.yaml, add-to-path.bat to the directory where you want to have latexindent.
2. right click on add-to-path.bat and click Run as administrator.
3. log out and lock back in
4. open a command prompt type the following and hit enter

   echo %path%

   to check if latexindent is now in your PATH

Linux

1. go to latexindent.pl and download latexindent.pl, defaultSettings.yaml the directory where you want to have latexindent.
2. within your directory create a directory called path-helper-files and download CMakeLists.txt and cmake_uninstall.cmake.in from the folder path-helper-files to this directory
3. run the following commands

   sudo apt-get install cmake
   sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install build-essential
   mkdir build && cd build
   cmake ../path-helper-files
   sudo make install

4. run

   which latexindent.pl

   to check if latexindent was correctly installed

Release Notes

1.0.5

filenames with spaces are now supported

1.0.4

added mac support

1.0.3

Fixed typos

1.0.2

Added windows support

1.0.1

Updated readme

1.0.0

Initial release

Roadmap

• Style options