a-nau / latex-devcontainer

Devcontainer for using LaTeX in VS Code with auto-formatting and one-click arXiv export and link check.

VS Code LaTeX Devcontainer

Devcontainer using LaTeX with VS Code featuring

• Common LaTeX plugins
• Github and Gitlab CI
• one-click arXiv export
• one-click PDF URL check

Note: No local LaTeX installation is needed, however, VS Code and Docker need to be installed to use this.

Usage

Step by Step:

• Install VS Code Devcontainer extension ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers
• Clone repo or add submodule with path .devcontainer into your project

  git clone https://github.com/a-nau/latex-devcontainer.git .devcontainer
  git submodule add https://github.com/a-nau/latex-devcontainer.git .devcontainer

• Press F1 (or CTRL + SHIFT + P) and select Dev Containers: Rebuild and Reopen Container
• (optional) rename main Texfile to root.tex or adjust CI configs if you want to use the CIs
• Commit the files copied during the Devcontainer setup (settings.json, .gitlab-ci.yml, latex_build.yml)
• If you do not see the following latex command menu, try reloading the window

Credits

• Uses the danteev/texlive Docker image as base: MIT License
• Uses arxiv-latex-cleaner: Apache 2.0 License
• Uses pdf-link-checker: MIT License
• Uses cvpr-latex-template as example for the .gif

Unless stated otherwise, this project is licensed under the MIT license.