Set Up Latex Project with VSCode

Recently, I worked with Latex for reporting. And It’s a little troublesome to setup Latex environment in Windows.

I downloaded and installed Miktex, whiich will download all dependant package the project required.

And open the folder which my Latex project located, and press F1 to configure the build script.

{
    "version": "2.0.0",
    "tasks": [
        {
            "taskName": "build",
            "type": "shell",
            "group": {
                "kind": "build",
                "isDefault": true
            },
            "command": "pdflatex.exe --interaction=errorstopmode --synctex=-1 \"thesis.tex\" ; .\\thesis.pdf",
            "problemMatcher": []
        },
        {
            "taskName": "push",
            "type": "shell",
            "command": "git push",
            "problemMatcher": []
        }
    ]
}

The build script just calls pdflatex.exe, whcih is installed by Miktex. My entry file is thesis.tex, then after build finished, make the pdf open automatically. And there is another task called “push”, which can push the project to git.

There are some extension to provide the preview function from pdflatex, like LaTex Preview…etc. I also install “Latex Language Support”.