Setup

I used to write with the excellent Texifier but have switched to VSCode and the LaTeX Workshop plugin. You will need TinyTeX installed.

This is on macOS. Note that the plugin uses LatexMk under the hood.

Install TinyTeX + Packages

# Install TinyTeX. Note that this may require Superuser privs since the
# binary ends up in /usr/local/bin
curl -sL "https://yihui.org/tinytex/install-bin-unix.sh" | sh

# Install some required packages.
brew install biber latexindent

# You don't need all these. Just some stuff accumulated over the years.
#
# Packages are stored in $HOME/Library/TinyTeX/texmf-dist/tex/latex
#
tlmgr install \
adjustbox \
algorithm \
algpseudocode \
amsfonts \
amsmath \
amsthm \
array \
biber \
biblatex \
biblatex-apa \
biblatex-ieee \
biblatex-mla \
blindtext \
booktabs \
caption \
changepage \
color \
courier \
csquotes \
empheq \
fbb \
fontawesome \
fontaxes \
footmisc \
framed \
fullpage \
graphicx \
grfext \
hyperref \
libertine \
libertinus-type1 \
libertinust1math \
longtable \
ly1 \
multicol \
multirow \
mweights \
newfloat \
pgf \
soul \
subcaption \
tabularx \
tikz \
titlesec \
xstring