Integrate Latex into VSCode

Installation

The goal is we only want to get LaTex essential parts without any GUI functions. Thus TeX Live is not a good choose, which is way to big, currently is up to 7GB if full is chosen.

Recommend to choose MikTeX, link: https://miktex.org/download

After installation, by using its console, we can specifically download the distributions that we may need.

MikTex-console

Command latexmk or pdflatex needs to be manually installed by searching inside console. To run them, perl is needed.

Note: its environment variable and PATH have to be correctly defined!

Setup Latex-workshop

  1. Install extension Latex-workshop, its ID: james-yu.latex-workshop.

  2. Configure LaTex recipes, by using variable latex-workshop.latex.recipes or latex-workshop.latex.tools. Link: https://github.com/James-Yu/LaTeX-Workshop/wiki/Compile#latex-recipes

  3. Try a simple case, check its build info, to make sure everything works well.

vscode-latex

More info

I happen to find a small and useful package, its name is called TexMaker, which can be downloaded from: https://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/download.html

around ~65MB, but very powerful and easy-to-use.