Regard .tikz files as TeX files as well

[simon123h]

For those of us, who work with a lot of TikZ graphics, having multiple .latexcfgs to support the .tikz extension for every image in each folder can be quite a hassle.

This could be eased by looking for .latexcfg in a parent directory as in #72.

Otherwise, the common .tikz extension could be supported natively, as already I proposed in #86.

I know this is debatable, so feel free to consider this.

[James-Yu]

Looks like the change is covered in #89.

Looking for configuration in child folders are troublesome, which was discussed in some previous issues. However, I do think looking in the parent one should be fine, as I cannot think of cases in which performance is a great issue. Meanwhile, I may now focus more in #91 first, and leave this an open question for now 🦍

[James-Yu]

One side question. Are there any actively developed Atom package that can cover the features in this one? I was away from the table for too long time and wasn't aware of new things 😆

[simon123h]

Regarding your side question: for me, this package is still the best one out there. All other similar packages known to me (latex, latex-plus, latextools) rely on a latexmk toolchain exclusively instead of offering plain pdflatex compilation. Also, atom-latex worked best for me out of the box. Anyways I stuck with atom-latex and haven't checked the others in a while.

[ashthespy]

@simon123h
What is your typical TikZ setup like? Do you pre compile each image prior to the main compilation using externalisation?

[simon123h]

@ashthespy I like to have my TikZ graphics as separate .tikz files and compile them on their own. I prefer this over externalization. This is why I'd like to compile my .tikz files conveniently.
I see that with externalization from my main document this would most likely not be an issue, as I would then compile my main .tex document.

[ashthespy]

@simon123h I understand your issue quite well! I am in search for for way to speed up my build times, as I now just use \input{figures/Image1.tikz} in my code and that doesn't really scale well when there are more than 10 TiKz images.