This package is a replacement for the already existing language-latex package. The design philosophy is if it is valid LaTeX, it gets correct syntax highlighting (within reason). For example, it will correctly highlight the optional arguments to \usepackage.
NOTE: bibtex has a different syntax to biber. I have added support for both, but you may need to manually select one or the other. I'll work on making this seamless.
- REQUIRES
makebuild tool.
Most features available in language-latex have been implemented, so all that remains is to tidy up the grammar rules. If you think you can help in anyway, feel free to go to the GitHub page and raise an issue or submit a pull request.
The package will scope grammar if it is installed through Atom like any other package. You may find that language-latex (if installed) needs to be disabled for this one to work properly.
This package supports a new magic comment of the form
% !TEX syntax = valueSee the documentation for details.
These sections detail how to set up the spell checking, linting and formatting packages.
Snippets have been removed from this package. To get them back mail ₿10 by carrier swallow (African) to the following offshore location you can install my other package autocomplete-latex, or any other completion package you like.
I recommend using the package linter-spell to manage spell checking. You will need a version of Aspell or Hunspell on your system, see the package itself for more help. One thing to make sure of is that you specify the absolute path for Hunspell | Aspell.
In addition, you need the package linter-spell-latex (this provides the LaTeX specific information to linter-spell, which is the general spell checking package). If the package is not activating, a quick fix is to make the change seen here. To confirm if the package is active, you can paste the following function into the dev tools console (View -> Developer -> Toggle Developer Tools)
!!atom.packages.getActivePackage("linter-spell-latex")
If it returns true, then it's active. If false, it's not active. Simples. **insert meerkat sounds**.
If things are being spell checked that shouldn't, first make sure it doesn't happen with language-latex. If the issue is unique to this package, make an issue here. If both packages have the same spell checking issue, make the issue at linter-spell-latex, and the maintainers there can redirect you if necessary. Always make sure your issue isn't already there before starting a new one.
linter-chktex should work out of the box, assuming you have the full TeXLive install (and if you don't, I'll assume you know enough to install the chktex package yourself).
However, you may not see the linting: in this case, make sure you have both linter and linter-ui-default installed and enabled.
The only problem here is getting latexindent (part of TeXLive install) to work. I resorted to installing a Perl Package manager, and tried running the terminal command latexindent and installing the package required by the error message until it worked. It seemed to be YAML::tiny and some Unicode package it needed.
- Note: The Atom package will not give a very informative error message, so be sure to get it working in the command line first.