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Matthew Andrews edited this page Dec 5, 2020 · 5 revisions

Welcome

Welcome to the latex-snippets-for-windows wiki!

This is my personal project turning Gilles Castel's vim LaTeX note-taking set up into something that works on Windows. If you use Atom, you'll be able to pretty much download and go. If you don't use Atom, you'll have to change some things, but it's pretty straightforward.

Usage

Each wikipage describes what given file does, so you can decide whether or not you want to use it. For the most part, folders work together.

Quickstart

Download ahk-tools/latexshortcuts.ahk and run the script.

About WSL

WSL stands for Windows Subsystem for Linux and basically lets you run Ubuntu on your Windows machine.

Image of Linux terminal running with Windows taskbar beneath

I'm fairly certain with sufficient tinkering, which I'm in the process of doing, this is probably a valid method of running the original scripts, and if I get it to work, I'll publish those steps here as well. However, it's actually much easier to not do it like that, because WSL is meant to be a command line process, so you have to really tinker with it1

1: Embarrassingly, I actually paid money for part of the giant toolchain running this.

Terminal text reading "the world is a strange place. i am running vim through the terminal on a linux desktop controlled by a linux terminal on a windows desktop i activated through windows terminal."

Getting started

Atom set-up information

Atom files (atom-tools/)

Snippets (atomsnippets.cson) — atom snippets to make your life easier

Shortcuts (keymap.cson) — a few extra vim commands

AutoHotkey files (ahk-shortcuts/)

Latex (latexshortcuts.ahk) — the basics, start here

Figure drawing (figures.ahk) — allows you to insert figures in inkscape

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