Visual Studio Code LaTeX Workshop Extension

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LaTeX Workshop is an extension for Visual Studio Code, aiming to provide core features for LaTeX typesetting with Visual Studio Code.

This project won't be successful without contributions from the community, especially from the current and past key contributors:

• Jerome Lelong @jlelong
• Takashi Tamura @tamuratak
• Tecosaur @tecosaur
• James Booth @jabooth

Thank you so much!

Note that the latest version of LaTeX-Workshop requires at least VSCode 1.114.0 (April 2026 or later).

Manual

The manual of the extension is maintained as a wiki

Table of Contents

• Home
• Installation and basic settings
  • Requirements
  • Installation
  • Setting PATH environment variable
  • Settings
  • Usage
    • Supported languages
  • Using Docker
  • Using WSL
• Compiling
  • Building the document
  • Terminating the current compilation
  • Auto build LaTeX
  • LaTeX recipes
    • LaTeX tools
    • Placeholders
  • Multi file projects
  • Cleaning generated files
  • Catching errors and warnings
  • External build command
  • Magic comments
  • Building a .jnw file
  • Building a .rnw file
• Linting
  • Duplicate labels
  • Chktex
• Viewing & SyncTeX
  • Internal PDF viewer
    • Color
    • Invert mode
  • SyncTeX
  • External PDF viewer
    • Using SyncTeX with an external viewer
• Formatting
  • LaTeX files
  • Bibtex files
• Intellisense
  • Citations
  • References
  • Commands
  • Environments
  • Files
  • Bibtex Files
  • @ suggestions
    • Inserting Greek letters
    • Handy mathematical helpers
• Snippets and shortcuts
  • Environments
  • Sectioning
  • Font commands
  • Mathematical font commands
  • Surrounding text
  • Miscellaneous actions
• Hovering and previewing features
  • Documentation of a package
  • Previewing equations
  • Previewing graphics
  • Previewing citation details
  • Previewing references
  • Documentation of a command
• Playing with environments
  • Inserting an environment
  • Itemize like environments
  • Navigating and selecting
  • Changing between \[...\] and \begin{}...\end{}
  • Closing the current environment
  • Surrounding selection with an environment
• Extra features
  • Structure of the document
  • Code folding
  • Counting words
  • Literate programming support using LaTeX
• [VS Code Remote Development](https://github.com/James-Yu/La