> How well does this work w/ a TeX-oriented editor? Say TeXshop?
Quarto can produce .tex output from .ipynb or .qmd inputs, which can then be further edited directly in your text editor of choice (TeXshop, or even something like overleaf) should you want to.
My apologies, it was on the Mac OS X TeX mailing list.
My question was whether one could use a TeX-oriented editor in lieu of VS Code --- would this be a reasonable option, or, do the advantages/capabilities conferred by VS Code make it something which pretty much require its use?
I'm trying to work up an environment for a largish project which I'm currently doing on Gitbook:
and I'm just not finding any tools which are a good fit yet, and when I move, I'd like to have a bit of familiarity to begin, and TeXshop is one tool in this space which I am familiar with.
Quarto files are just markdown files, so any text editor will work. There is nice support for Neovim, JupyterLab, and RStudio too, if any of those are more familiar.
That said, the Quarto VS.Code extension has some very nice features that I think would be awfully useful in a big project:
- A visual editor to allow a simpler editing experience (could be a pro or con ;-)).
- Completions for document centric things like cross references and bibliographies, completions for yaml configuration options.
- Live preview of LaTeX math, Mermaid and Graphviz diagrams
- Syntax highlight for the markdown and embedded languages
- A nice preview workflow
I'm not sure if those are enough to overcome the lack of familiarity, but thought I'd highlight some of the benefits. Neovim and Rstudio both have very strong features with most or all of the above. Our JuptyerLab extension is more minimal, really only helping with markdown rendering.
How well does this work w/ a TeX-oriented editor? Say TeXshop?