Indenting style of LaTeX files with Sublime Text

Question

Here is a part of my LaTeX code and what I want it to be:

...
\begin{table}
    \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|l|l|l|X|X|X|X|}
...

However, if I re-indent it in Sublime Text 3, it becomes:

...
\begin{table}
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|l|l|l|X|X|X|X|}
...

Then the folding function is also invalid, how do I fix this? I'm using LaTeXTools.

Do you mean that is a command or a plug-in? Please be more specific. @HarishKumar — Elderry, Mar 10 '14 at 07:03
Refer to LaTeX code sniffer and/or beautifier? and https://github.com/cmhughes/latexindent.pl — , Mar 10 '14 at 07:18
Unless I'm mistaken, latexindent isn't available directly as a Sublime Text 3 plugin, though right? — obfuscation, May 08 '14 at 09:36

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 10 '14 at 09:22

You should use the plugin latexindent. Please see here for the documentation and the download.

Here is an example how to use it with arara and how the code looks after the indentation.

% arara: pdflatex
% arara: indent: { overwrite : yes }

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{booktabs}

\begin{document}
\begin{table}
    \centering
    \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{lllXXXX}
        \toprule
        l & l & l & X & X & X & X \\ 
        \bottomrule
    \end{tabularx}
\end{table}
\end{document}

+1 note that latexindent.pl is on ctan too :) http://www.ctan.org/pkg/latexindent — cmhughes, Mar 11 '14 at 17:14

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 26 '15 at 20:49

I found that albertxing's gist worked for me in ST3. To summarize, paste & save as LaTeX/Indentation Rules.tmPreferences in your user profile folder (Sublime's Preferences > Browse Packages > LatexTools). Restart Sublime, highlight all and Edit > Line > ReIndent.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
    <dict>
        <key>name</key>
        <string>Indentation Rules</string>
        <key>scope</key>
        <string>text.tex, sources.bib</string>
        <key>settings</key>
        <dict>
            <key>decreaseIndentPattern</key>
            <string>(?x)
                ^\s*\\end\{[^\{\}]+\}.*$
            |   ^\s*\\\].*$
            |   ^\s*\}.*
            |   ^\s*\%.*\(end\).*$
            </string>
            <key>increaseIndentPattern</key>
            <string>(?x)
                ^\s*\\begin\{[^\{\}]+\}(\{.*\}|\[.*\])*$
            |   ^.*\\\[\s*$
            |   ^.*\\(.+)\{$
            |   ^\s*\\((sub)[0,2])?section(\*)?\{.*\}.*$
            </string>
        </dict>
        <key>uuid</key>
        <string>02EB44C6-9203-4F4C-BFCB-7E3360B12842</string>
    </dict>
</plist>

Question. I go into my packages folder and I see LaTeXTools. Does this mean that I would use that folder, or create another folder called 'LaTeX' with a subfolder 'Indentation', and a file Rules.tmPreferences? I'm a complete beginner to Latex, I'm not even sure that I'm using the same plugin that will require this config file — Zach Smith, Jul 01 '16 at 17:07

Indenting style of LaTeX files with Sublime Text

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