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

Example

Requirements

Installation guide

TexDistro - Package manager

For MiKTeX and TeXLive is a package available.


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