[Question] Chapters previsualization

[evilmonkey19]

First of all, I would like to say thanks personally for making LaTeX easier to use in Zed.

In the instructions, you state the following:

    "texpresso-lsp": {
      "initialization_options": {
          "root_tex": "path/to/main/tex/file", // relative to workspace root, defaults to main.tex
        },

I usually documents which can be hundreds of pages long. I find myself particularly useful to split the document in multiple chapters which then I aggregate on the main.tex. Is it possible to render only the chapter automatically whichout having to express directly the root_tex? I think it would particularly useful.

[lnay]

Language servers are tied to worspaces so it is natural to have a single preview for a single workspace. If chapters are in subdirectories, maybe there could be settings (in subdirectories) so that when you open one of those subdirectories as a workspace then the preview opens for the chapter instead (although this issue might be a problem, I haven't tested recently).

I have been thinking about some "project discovery" to avoid some user config, which I might try over the holidays.

Unfortunately in Zed, we cannot have a "start texpresso on the current file" like you can in the neovim extension because of Zed extension limitations (which may be resolved in the future, but unlikely to be within months).

[evilmonkey19]

Thanks for the reply! In VSCode there is this feature and it is really useful. For examole, for a long book it is common to have chapters and only visualize the chapter.

I will take your argument that the Zed extensions are quite limited. Probably we can leave this issue open meanwhile.