Latex Live Preview

Latex Live Preview with watchdog

Here is a first beta. It may be some bug.

Feature

• Live Preview, when you save .tex or .bib
• Support only evince (pdf viewer).
• Show only Error and Warning message, for easily to debug. Source is adapted from Here
• Automatic convert to pdf & clean junk files

Dockerize this project

• Build this project

  docker build -t mildronize/latex-live-preview .
  

• Run Latex with live preview on Docker

  docker run --rm -it -v "$PWD:/src" mildronize/latex-live-preview /app/watchdog_latex [LATEX FILE NAME w/o extension]
  

Prerequisite

$ sudo pip3 install watchdog

Install

1. Clone this project.

   git clone https://github.com/mildronize/latex-live-preview.git /tmp/latex-live-preview

2. copy bin/watchdog_latex and bin/topdf into your latex project:

   $ cp /tmp/latex-live-preview/bin/{watchdog_latex, topdf} /path/to/your/project

Usage

• Run ./watchdog_latex [LATEX FILE NAME w/o extension]
• Save .tex or .bib when file is changed, the program will compile latex to pdf
• If .pdf is exist, run evince [LATE FILE NAME].pdf& into background
• Enjoy! your writing with latex when you save, the pdf viewer will be reload automatically

Example usage

If I have report.tex , ref.bib, and report.tex import bib from ref.bib.

• ./watchdog_latex report
• Open pdf evince report.pdf&