Configuration

Fire up VSCode and create a new .tex document. Adapt the document template below, pick "SyncTeX from Cursor" in the command palette¹ to see live-previews! 🤩

You can now configure your environment as much as you'd like based on this excellent article.

Formatting

Makes your TeX files more readable (especially tables and lists!). On macOS, install LaTeX Indent via brew install latexindent².

Then go to your VSCode settings.json and add this:

{
  "latex-workshop.bibtex-format.sort.enabled": true,
  "latex-workshop.bibtex-format.trailingComma": true,
  "latex-workshop.formatting.latex": "latexindent",
  "latex-workshop.latex.autoClean.run": "onSucceeded",
  "latex-workshop.latex.clean.method": "command"
}

Footnotes

1. Cmd+Shift+p on macOS and Ctrl+Shift+p on poorer platforms. ↩

2. There's tex-fmt that's written in Rust but it doesn't do tables well. ↩