livetex

A TeX/LaTeX auto builder and deployer.

Usage Example

./livetex -r ~/latex -a 0.0.0.0:8000 -c xelatex --output-format=pdf --halt-on-error

After running the command above, PDF preview is available at http://localhost:8000/<tex-filename> (e.g. http://localhost:8000/foo.tex). And, everytime the file ~/latex/*.tex changes, the webpage will reload automatically.

CLI Usage

Alternatives

I've discovered some other approaches to achieve automatic TeX compilation + PDF reloading.

Compilation

• autotex

• latexmk

  latexmk -pdf -pvc -pdflatex='xelatex --halt-on-error' a.tex
  

Previewing

• pdf-live-server

However, none of them reflect compilation error on the PDF previewing side (they just remain unchanged). Plus, I want auto-preview using the browser's native PDF viewer (it's simple: just use <embed>) instead of using something extra like pdf.js, so finally I created my version of this little toolchain.