Re:How to write LaTeX without writing LaTeX
by dash2 on Sunday December 26, 2021 @04:42AM
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> or just write a hook in your text editor
Ah, the Dropbox comment springs to mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Re:How to write LaTeX without writing LaTeX
by gopiandcode on Sunday December 26, 2021 @09:24AM
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..except it's quite different though?
Adding a hook for compilation in most decent editors is only a few lines of config, and many popular editors (GNU Emacs, vim, m$ vscode) nowadays have packages that have these hooks predefined, so it pretty much just comes down to installing a package, which I hope you don't think is beyond the capabilities of the average user. Alternatively there are editors like texworks which provide exactly this feature out of the box.
Write in a plain text editor, have evince open the generated document, it will reload when updated. Then use inotifywatch to generate on save, or just write a hook in your text editor that will update the pdf.
You don't need to use overleaf to get the overleaf experience...