Description:

vitex 0.3.3

An unholy conglomeration of vim, evince, and friends for writing LaTeX


Goal
Do you prefer to use vim to edit your LaTeX files, but wish there was better integration between the editor and your pdf viewer? Well this is the project for you! The goal of ViTeX is to bring together high quality tools in a convenient package to make editing LaTeX as painless(tm) as possible.
Status
Currently working on arch linux with the Gnome desktop environment.
Features!

Real neovim via Vte
Custom init.vim for editing LaTeX (of course feel free to personalize)
Embedded PDF view using Evince with auto reload
Synctex support
Support for editing and viewing Markdown too
That's pretty much it!

Requirements
This is likely a non-exhaustive list, so please feel free to create an issue if you found you needed something else.

Python 3
Gtk+
Evince
neovim
pandoc

Controls

ctrl -: Decrease editor font size
ctrl +: Increase editor font size
ctrl b: Start async build with latexmk
ctrl right: move divider to right
ctrl left: move divider to left
ctrl up: move divider to center

Setup

Through Git

git clone git@github.com:cfangmeier/vitex.git
cd vitex
python setup.py install --user


Via pip

pip install vitex --user

License

For personal and professional use. You cannot resell or redistribute these repositories in their original state.

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