Getting started with TeXposit

Create your first project and learn the main areas of the editor.

TeXposit is a collaborative LaTeX editor with an optional AI assistant. This page covers creating a project, the layout of the editor, and compiling.

Create a project

  1. On the projects page, click Create. The Create New Project dialog opens.
The TeXposit projects page with the Create button highlighted in the toolbar above the project list
The Create button on the projects page.
  1. Pick a template:
    • Blank Project: no files at all, for custom setups.
    • Document: formatted pages with headers, footers and page numbers, edited in the visual editor. No LaTeX compile.
    • LaTeX Project: an article skeleton with sections and a bibliography.
    • Markdown Project: plain-text notes and drafts, opened in the visual editor.
  2. Optionally enter a Project name. If you leave it blank, the template's name is used.
  3. Click Create project.
The Create New Project dialog with a name field, the four template cards (Blank Project, Document, LaTeX Project, Markdown Project) and the Create project button, each annotated
Name it, pick a template, create it.

The editor

  • File tree (left): your project's files and folders. Click a file to open it. Toggle the sidebar with Ctrl/Cmd+B.
  • Editor (centre): where you write. Switch between Source Code and Visual (WYSIWYG) from the toolbar.
  • PDF preview: the compiled document. Toggle it with Shift+Esc, and swap the panes with Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Esc.
  • AI assistant: a chat panel for questions and edit requests. Toggle it with Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+B.
  • Toolbar and palette: the toolbar holds the layout and view controls. The action palette (Ctrl/Cmd+P) reaches files, commands and citations from the keyboard. See the action palette.

Drag the dividers to resize panes.

Compile

Press Ctrl/Cmd+S to save and recompile. The same command is in the menu as Save & Recompile. The PDF preview updates when the compile finishes. If it fails, the error log is shown in the preview pane. In manual compile mode the preview toolbar also has a Compile button.

Close-up of the Compile button at the top left of the PDF preview toolbar
The Compile button in the preview toolbar.

History

Every save is recorded as a version of your project. To browse it, click the History button in the toolbar, or choose View Edit History from the menu.

Close-up of the History button, a clock icon at the top right of the editor toolbar
The History button.
The editor with the Edit History panel open on the right, listing project changes with author, file, short commit id and time
The project history lists every change with who made it and when.
  • The project history lists the changes made to the project.
  • Pick a file to see that file's history.
  • Select lines in the editor and use Show History for Selection to see the history of just those lines.
  • From a past version you can preview a restore and revert the file to that state. Reverting creates a new history entry, so you can undo it later from the history view.

History is not available for local projects, which use a folder on your computer as the source of truth.

See alsoEssential shortcuts·The action palette