[Tex/LaTex] LaTeX in intelliJ

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I have installed the idea-latex plug-in in my IntelliJ IDEA. I have created a LaTeX file (but I have found no way to create a LaTeX project!). Some highlighting features work but I cannot find how to generate a .pdf version?

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The readme of idea-latex (https://github.com/hsz/idea-latex) currently lists generating PDF files under feature requests. As such it would appear that at the moment it is not possible to compile documents directly from IntelliJ IDEA with this plugin.

Therefore, your options are I guess either

using a terminal/command prompt to compile the document, or
use a different editor. A list of options can be found in LaTeX Editors/IDEs.

Emacs with AUCTeX — emacs auctex

Platforms: Windows, Mac (incl. Aquamacs fork), Unix
License: Free software (GPL)
Languages: de, dk, fr, is, it, jp, nl, pl, se, sk are supported by AUCTeX language styles
Unicode: Yes, from Emacs 23, characters are represented using Unicode
RTL/bidirectional support: From Emacs 24, through bidi-mode
% !TeX directives: No, but has several realizations of file local variables
Syntax highlighting: Yes, customisable through customize and Elisp
Code completion: Yes
Code folding: Yes
Spell checking: Yes
SyncTeX: Yes
Built-in output viewer: Yes
Project management: org-mode, reftex-mode, speedbar

Emacs is one of the oldest programmable editors, which has basic support for TeX and friends. AUCTeX is a plugin to Emacs which provides a much more advanced support for editing LaTeX, ConTeXt, docTeX, Texinfo, and Plain TeX documents. It comes with a sophisticated auto-completion mechanism for environments and commands, supporting by default more than two hundreds LaTeX packages (but virtually any package can be automatically parsed in order to provide autocompletion for its commands and environments).

(In this screenshot, visual-line-mode is enabled. In this mode, lines that are wider than the window are broken between words. The line breaks are not added to the source file.)

RefTeX is another plugin to Emacs, independent from and complementary to AUCTeX, which aids you with the management of bibliographic sources. It makes all your references as easy to find as a C-c <key>, for both BibTeX and biblatex, and also provides convenient shortcuts for navigating between sections in your document, bound by default to C-c =:

Screenshot featuring RefTeX's outliner (Note that colour themes are completely customizable)

AUCTeX supports multi-file parsing, so that huge documents with \input or \include commands are easily compiled with C-c C-c from any of their files. No more going back to the master file in order to compile.

AUCTeX's preview-latex offers WYSIWYG previewing of formulae.

Interesting features of Emacs:

Use table-insert along with table-generate-source and table-recognize-* functions to easily create a base for your tables.
Lots of useful keyboard shortcuts
Extensively documented, both in Emacs, via the Emacs and AUCTeX Texinfo manuals, and via many books in several languages.
Supports most of vim's features and keybindings through evil-mode.

[Tex/LaTex] Having a LaTeX PDF display the date the document was printed, not compiled

The tdclock package offers an easy way to insert the current date and time into a PDF document:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tdclock}
\begin{document}
\initclock
Date: \tddate
\end{document}

Mind the \initclock at the beginning of the document, then you'll be able to display the current time and date with the macros \tdclock, \tddate, \tdtime, ... (see the documentation for more details).

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