I can never remember the name of the son of my cousin (first cousin, once removed?). Heck, quite a number of my cousins are married now and I don’t always remember the name of their partners. While I don’t care too much being labelled as a “terrible human being” by my cousins, I do feel bad for their partners, even though I don’t care if they remember my name.

Foreword

Inspired by this post on Reddit on someone else’s workflow, I decided to kick things up a notch and bring even more of the similar ideas on board. There will be many parts of which may take a lot of effort to emulate, but hopefully this in-depth plunge into my setup can give you ideas on how you can make your own experience of using and writing in LaTeX more enjoyable.

This is not your tutorial to how to use LaTeX. I do not proclaim myself a pro at LaTeX at this point, and so I do not think I am eligible to write a even an introductory passage to using LaTeX. You are free to ask me how to do certain things and I’ll gladly answer them to the best of my abilities or point you to the right resources.

Due to how I use my computer and the nature of my setup, here are some knowledge that I expect the reader to know or be familiar with before delving forward.

• familiarity with the command line (cli) and terminal environment is required; and
• basic familiarity with how LaTeX and TeXLive works;
• basic familiarity with regular expressions (pattern matching and groups);
• already have TeX installed on your system.