The Latex Auto-completion in Jupyterlab

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Hi , big guys ,how could I set up the extension named Jupyterlab-latex so that I can automatically match the possible options when typing instead of having to manually press the tab key?
Thanks so much.

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This is possible, but not particularly easy, or particulalry powerful (not many commands known) with jupyterlab-lsp, pip, and a bunch of manual downloads.

Here’s a binder which demonstrates a recommendable, mostly-cross-platform path, without knowing more about the OS/method you are installing with.

To do this locally (aside from the full xelatex environment)

  • get Mambaforge (a flavor of miniforge)
  • start (and check in) a new environment.yml like the one in the gist
  • update the environment
mamba env update environment.yml --prefix .venv
conda activate ./.venv
jupyter lab
  • optionally update the language server settings to look like:

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Some reasoning:

  • conda/mamba vs pip
    • pip can’t install a LaTeX environment or the language server
  • miniforge vs miniconda/anaconda
    • the terms of service are rather odious, and could change at any time
    • using conda-forge (and not defaults from anaconda.com) will increase stability and reproducibility
  • mamba vs conda
    • once you start putting other “actual work” stuff in this env, it will get quite large, conda can take minutes to solve
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