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I've been using TextMate and TextMate 2 for years writing LaTeX. I recently switched to Sublime Text, but still miss a key feature there.

The LaTeX package of TextMate 2 has the Watch Document function, which is "[...] a live pdf preview of the LaTeX document you're editing that automatically updates while you make changes." (Source).

These changes do not only include any Tex file included in a master document, but also extends to changes in images and other files included in the document.

I've already learned that it is possible in LaTeXTools for Sublime Text to build a project consisting of many files by including %!TEX root = MyMasterFile.tex on top of each document. However, I really do not like the tedious workflow of always triggering the build process by hand. I want LaTeXTools to rebuild my document as soon as any file associated with it changes.

My current workflow is triggering the Watch Document using Textmate 2 and then switching over to Sublime Text 3 to work on the project.

Is it possible to achieve this functionality with Sublime Text and LaTeXTools only?

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    You could always run latexmk -pvc main which will recompile whenever any file changes
    – Bordaigorl
    Dec 4, 2015 at 18:56
  • This works exactly as I want it to. I've created a proper makefile using this example. If you want to, you can add your comment as answer and I will accept it.
    – Paul Klemm
    Dec 10, 2015 at 15:37

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One approach is to simply launch latexmk -pvc main in your working directory. From the manual:

-pvc Run a file previewer and continually update the .dvi, .ps, and/or .pdf files whenever changes are made to source files (see the Description above).

latexmk is included in all modern TeX distributions.

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You could always just use a different ST plugin, like OnSaveBuild which would work if you change its filename_filter setting to something like "\\.tex$".

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  • This is a very good idea. The solution of @Bordaigorl, however, does exactly what I want and I think that his approach is more versatile.
    – Paul Klemm
    Dec 10, 2015 at 15:39

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