Tectonic under text editors

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Tectonic seems to be a great project.

I am wondering if I can call Tectonic from a text editor (ideally Texmaker or Texstudio)?

If I understand well, Tectonic is a command-line which is quite (not interactive) so not practical when it goes to correct latex errors!

surely you can run any command from your editor, why would you not be able to call tectonic? — David Carlisle, Commented Sep 25, 2022 at 18:41
@DavidCarlisle I don't know how to call an external program from Texmaker (for example). I tried to replace xelatex with tectonic in Commands configuration of texmaker...without success! — user56980, Commented Sep 25, 2022 at 19:03
Can you say exactly what you did to change the configuration and/or show us the "Commands" and "Quick Build" pages of TeXmaker's config? Can you be more specific about "without success" means: what happened when you tried? I would think that texmaker or texstudio would process the .log file for error reporting and correction, not the console output of the command, so its being "quiet" shouldn't matter. — frabjous, Commented Sep 25, 2022 at 21:14

asmaier · Accepted Answer · 2022-10-29 15:14:19Z

It is actually quite easy to use tectonic with texmaker. After installing tectonic and texmaker, e.g. on Mac

brew install tectonic
brew install --cask texmaker

you can start texmaker. Then navigate to Preferences->Quick Build and select User. In the text field enter the following command

tectonic %.tex --keep-logs

That's it. Now you can compile your document simply starting Quick Build and then View PDF.

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