There are many versions of LaTeX you can download, but BasicTeX is the most lightweight version that comes with some compilers and the minimal set of LaTeX packges you might need to compile a document. Each compiler relies on other packages to work, like hyperref for making links in your PDF. Version Management (which doubles as a form of backing up)īasicTeX (or some other flavour of LaTeX)įirstly, I should clarify for the unitiated that, while you can write LaTeX files in any text editor, you need a compiler to turn raw TeX code into a formatted document.Some flavour of LaTeX tools (including compiler and packages).So, to run everything locally, I need three things: I don't show off how awesome window management is, how the powerful the command pallette is (automatic document formatting, switching between files), and so many features that I use instinctively now (the learning curve is not steep)! Git also lets me do some other fun things (see below).īelow is a small demonstration of some of these features, but it's nowhere near complete. Overleaf doesn't have this built-in and its version management is nowhere near as powerful as git. Git – being able to have precise version control over my writing is great, especially being able to branch.For those with premium Overleaf accounts, there's a direct integration too, but I'm not ready to pay for it (especially next to all my other reasons of why to not use it).
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