[Feature Request] Advanced Formatter

[sleepymalc]

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Motivation

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• A clean formatting is always a good thing to have.
• The current formatter doesn't seem to be enough

Feature Description

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• Support some existing formatter like latexindent. This is what LaTeX-Workshop used, so I guess this is possible. Currently the functionality of the default formatter is quite bad, e.g., it doesn't support any indentation fixing.
• Other formatter like for .bib files.

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• Applicable Overleaf Edition: Official / Community / Enterprise (Server Pro)
• Applicable Extension Range: Desktop Extension / Web Extension

[iamhyc]

@QianrenLi Please have a look at it when you are free.

[sleepymalc]

I think suddenly my local formatter is working again. Not sure why however.

[benlw]

I also used the local latexindent, but sometimes it failed, and I don't know why.

[EasonYWei]

Same question, latexindent does not work anymore.

[QianrenLi]

Sorry for the late. In my case, latexindent works with the following steps. Please let me know if this works for you (Take main.tex as an example):

1. Create a local replica for your project.
2. Either manually run latexindent.exe -w .\main.tex or install the LaTeXindent extension. If you choose the latter, update the latexindent.executable path to match your local latexindent path. You may also want to set latexindent as the default formatter for better performance.