jupyterlab-latex

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For most of Latex newbie is very difficult to create new correct LaTeX file without copy-pasting all that stuff about \documentclass, set of packages, etc.

So, it will be great, if:

• Jupyter-Latex will have setting like

    c.LatexConfig.latex_template_file = 'simple_article_for_our_institute.tex'

• New menu "File→New→Latex File" will be added.
• Calling "File→New→Latex File" we create new latex file from simple_article_for_our_institute.tex

Very simple but useful usecase.

Ideas for further improvements

• May be with some template interpolation, but template processing looks not so important.
• May be have set of templates ("article", "corporative report", "lab work", "book") and corresponding set of submenus under "File→New→Latex File"

This is a nice idea!

To make it more configurable, maybe a list or dictionary like:

c.LatexConfig.latex_template_files = {
    'name': 'path/to/file.tex'
}

This could even have a couple templates set by default.

I personally have 2 main templates that I use, so this would be AWESOME.

Maybe we could take some inspiration from jupyterlab_templates. It does exactly what we need except that it only accepts using *.ipynb as templates. Or we could ask @timkpaine about supporting non-notebook file types.

i have no issues with accepting non-ipynb files