Some questions regarding WebLaTeX for a project

[mrgarbagegamer]

I found out about this project a little while ago and I'm considering using it as a replacement for Overleaf for a project I'm working on. My colleague has experience using LaTeX on the platform but the two of us are struggling to make the UI easier to use. I have a couple of issues that I'm trying to resolve here and I'm curious about how to fix them:

• When using VSCode on my computer for this Codespace, hitting Ctrl + S doesn't generate a PDF and place it on the side of my editor
• All of my files end up using some resources from preamble.sty and I want to place the file in one folder and access it in each subfolder without copying and pasting the file to each Unit X Assignments folder. Is this possible?
• This isn't too big of a deal but is there a way to get rid of the other files used while building the PDF to make things cleaner?

The project's available at mrgarbagegamer/GEL if you can take a look; I like the features and collaborative abilities of WebLaTeX but I'm having trouble just simplifying things so we can easily use it for our purpose.

[mrgarbagegamer]

@sanjib-sen

[HerrSchnapps]

"When using VSCode on my computer for this Codespace, hitting Ctrl + S doesn't generate a PDF and place it on the side of my editor" I met the sam problem.

Moreover, it will not be automatically generated when I am typing in .Tex file

[hellmrf]

@mrgarbagegamer , regarding two of your questions.

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• All of my files end up using some resources from preamble.sty and I want to place the file in one folder and access it in each subfolder without copying and pasting the file to each Unit X Assignments folder. Is this possible?

Yes, you need to make preamble.sty visible through TEXINPUTS environment variable. For example, if you have /opt/mysty/preamble.sty, you make it visible by doing:

export TEXINPUTS=".:/opt/mysty/:$TEXINPUTS"
pdflatex main.tex

This way, pdflatex will find preamble.sty at /opt/mysty.

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• This isn't too big of a deal but is there a way to get rid of the other files used while building the PDF to make things cleaner?

Yes, the easiest way I know is by using latexmk:

latexmk -c main.tex  # Clear temp files like main.* 
latexmk -c           # Clear all temp files