LaTeX Workflows

There are a tonne of text editors that support LaTeX:

• Vim
• Emacs
• Notepad++
• TeXShop

My favourite: Sublime Text, with the LaTeXTools plugin:

• Syntax highlighting
• Single shortcut compile
• Automatic reference completion
• Automatic citation completion
• Compilation management

One good idea: split your large document into separate LaTeX source files.

• Allows you to manage separate chapters efficiently
• Helps with collaboration on papers by preventing conflicts

To do this, simply put each section or chapter into a seperate .tex file, then where it should appear in the main file, add \input{filename} (without the .tex). You can add a line to the top of each “child” file to point at the master so your editor knows which file should be compiled: %!TEX root=mainfile.tex.

Another good practice is to put each sentence on a new line. Since LaTeX will ignore this when typesetting, it will not disturb your output, but will help with seeing differences between subsequent revisions when using a version control system.