LaTeX

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LaTeX

Tree Sitter parser link

https://github.com/latex-lsp/tree-sitter-latex

Language server link

https://github.com/latex-lsp/texlab

Misc notes

This could go a long way. Many students use LaTeX in order to take notes in lectures, and I think there these things are interesting to look at in addition to the syntax highlighting and LSP itself:

• The ability to add snippets — sure, LaTeX has some of them itself in the form of commands, but it can be really nice to have a nice snippet for typing a table with the tabular environment, for example.
• Have some way to look at the final result, nice for typing math equations and similar. Even if it's just the current line in an align environment.
• Allow to fold/dim text which is not in the current paragraph/environment.
• SyncTeX support. Part of TeXlive, it allows synchronizing the views of source code and compiled output.

(sidenote: I don't even use Zed yet, though I'd really like to see this some time in future)

[Sandybunting]

This would definitely be trickier to implement, but in the long term, including a PDF view window would make Zed extremely attractive for this workflow. I'd love to use Zed for typesetting but, even if LSP support was included, I would be reluctant to leave behind the convenient live previewing of the PDF output that VSCode achieves with the Latex Workshop package (or, for Typst, the Typst LSP package).

[mocenigo]

I am very confused. I do not see LaTeX support if I open a LaTeX file into zed. If I click on "unknown" in the bottom right corner, I see a list of languages and TeX or LaTeX are not there.

Tree Sitter parser link

https://github.com/latex-lsp/tree-sitter-latex

Language server link

https://github.com/valentjn/vscode-ltex https://github.com/latex-lsp/texlab

[Moshyfawn]

If I click on "unknown" in the bottom right corner, I see a list of languages and TeX or LaTeX are not there.

Have you installed the LaTex extension from zed: extensions?

[mocenigo]

I did not. Now I have. This is however only syntax highlighting, not compilation commands and preview <-> source sync?

[Moshyfawn]

This is the extent of what the Zed language extensions can do at the moment, but there is more to come.

[mocenigo]

This is the extent of what the Zed language extensions can do at the moment, but there is more to come.

The development is happening at an astounding pace. I am amazed.

[OliCallaghan]

Opened up a PR to configure the language server here: https://github.com/rzukic/zed-latex/pull/2.

Note you need texlab installed, if you're on mac, you can run brew install texlab.

[analytic-bias]

I'd mention also https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/manual/preview-latex.html. It allows Emacs users to hit a shortcut (or automatically when file saved etc) to render configured LaTeX environments and substitute in the rendered svg in-ppace in the editor. This has been hard to be supported in vscode (https://github.com/James-Yu/LaTeX-Workshop/issues/1427); don't know if you will have any luck.