Attention: I no longer recommend this method. Do use Docker with VS Code Remote Containers instead, as mentioned in the wiki: https://github.com/James-Yu/LaTeX-Workshop/wiki/Install#using-docker

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Provides Docker shims for LaTeX binaries used by https://github.com/James-Yu/LaTeX-Workshop

Motivation:

• Easy installation.
• Does not mess with your local files.

I am using this on MacOS, but this should work on unix generally. Windows is not supported currently. Contributions are welcome!

Setup

• Install Docker for MacOS (https://www.docker.com/community-edition#/download or run brew cask install docker if you have brew)
• Clone this repository
• Add the bin directory to your path
• In VS Code, install the awesome https://github.com/James-Yu/LaTeX-Workshop extension
• Ready! Building, linting, SyncTex, formatting just works!

Credits

Inspired by James-Yu/LaTeX-Workshop#302