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LaTeX Visual Editor

by cyndigan

A Visual LaTeX editor, inspired by Overleaf's visual editor.

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Version

0.5.0

Last updated

Jul 15, 2026

A VS Code extension that provides a visual editor for LaTeX documents. It is inspired by Overleaf's visual editor and uses the same interface and parser.

Example screenshot

Usage

Open a .tex file and click the eye icon in the editor title bar to toggle the visual editor.

Features

Visual editing

  • Document structure: titles, authors, headings, lists, theorems, proofs captions, footnotes, and endnotes
  • Technical content: inline/display math, citations, references, labels, glossary entries, links, colors, special characters, and code listings
  • Media: figures, SVGs, tables, and included listings
  • Editor: folding, line numbers and default theme

Editing tools

  • Figure insertion, editing, deletion, upload, paste, and drag-and-drop
  • Editable tables with cell previews, multi-cell selection, copy/paste, and row or column deletion
  • Formatted HTML paste for headings, styles, links, lists, quotations, code, and tables
  • Completion for LaTeX commands, environments, citations, labels, packages, classes, files, graphics, and bibliography styles

VS Code integration

  • Synchronized source and visual editing
  • Preserved selection, cursor position, and editor view
  • SyncTeX navigation through LaTeX Workshop
  • Standard keybindings for find, copy, paste, italic, bold, build, SyncTeX, folding

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