Re:JupyterLab LaTeX – live-editing of LaTeX documents in Jup...
by activatedgeek on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @02:29AM
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I don't quite understand the value of using a LaTeX editor in JupyterLab. For most purposes, JupyterLab already supports a subset of LaTeX within the Markdown cells.
Perhaps, the objective is to make JupyterLab the IDE for everything. I just hope JupyterLab doesn't go down the path of becoming everything for everything because honestly, I just don't see why the community's attention should be divided to solve problems that they aren't in the business of in the first place. But as a demonstration that you can run a latex compiler with JupyterLab plugins, great!
I recently started using Texpad [1]. A pretty fair $30/year/seat price point, if you want a local alternative to Overleaf [2]. Their incremental compilation is delightfully real-time; the lag from typing to rendering the PDF is virtually zero.
There are a few unsupported packages which I think are mostly not needed [3]. For instance, the minted package for code highlighting is something that I felt I needed, but then almost never do. The support for microtype package is hopefully coming soon. In any case, the usual fallback is available to MacTex and is supported within Texpad.
Perhaps, the objective is to make JupyterLab the IDE for everything. I just hope JupyterLab doesn't go down the path of becoming everything for everything because honestly, I just don't see why the community's attention should be divided to solve problems that they aren't in the business of in the first place. But as a demonstration that you can run a latex compiler with JupyterLab plugins, great!
I recently started using Texpad [1]. A pretty fair $30/year/seat price point, if you want a local alternative to Overleaf [2]. Their incremental compilation is delightfully real-time; the lag from typing to rendering the PDF is virtually zero.
There are a few unsupported packages which I think are mostly not needed [3]. For instance, the minted package for code highlighting is something that I felt I needed, but then almost never do. The support for microtype package is hopefully coming soon. In any case, the usual fallback is available to MacTex and is supported within Texpad.
[1]: https://www.texpad.com
[2]: https://www.overleaf.com
[3]: https://www.texpad.com/docs/tutorials/tex/typesetters/texpad...