
The recipe system that LaTeX Workshop uses for compiling your documents is very powerful and allows you a lot of control over the way documents are generated. There are a few additional configuration tasks that can be completed in order to further customize the LaTeX environment in Visual Studio Code.
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It shows the word count in the footer of the VS Code window. It does this by ignoring all of the LaTeX markup and comments within a LaTeX document to give a mostly accurate word count. The latex-count extension is a basic extension that is able to get a more accurate word count within your LaTeX documents.

The extension allows the ability to view changes and make commits to Bitbucket directly from VS Code. If you don’t use Jira you can disable that functionality if you want.

It works even better when you also use the Sourcetree application from Atlassian. Atlassian provides an official plugin for Bitbucket in the Jira and Bitbucket (Official) extension, which provides excellent integration with Visual Studio Code. At the end of the day it is all Git, so the hosting provider makes no real difference to me, I only like Bitbucket because it integrates with all of the other Atlassian products that I also use alongside it. I have been using Atlassian products since late 2009 and for many reasons I favour Bitbucket over GitHub. It also supports the ability to whitelist words and make exceptions as needed. The Code Spell Checker extension is a very basic spell checker extension which isn’t the greatest around, but allows you to quickly catch obvious spelling errors in your LaTeX documents. This extension makes it very easy to find your place (or places) within large and complex LaTeX documents by adding an additional section in the Visual Studio Code sidebar and adds a quick shortcut (CTRL+ALT+K) to add the bookmarks. I have used this extension long before I used it with LaTeX, and it is very handy to have in VS Code. The Bookmarks extension does exactly what is sounds like, it gives you the ability to easily add bookmarks within your documents that are easy to search through. There are a few extensions that I use in addition to the LaTeX Workshop extension in order to make writing complex documents easier to do within Visual Studio Code. See screenshots below of the first (working) example and of the second (non-working) example of the same.

In one machine the Latex code shows up with the correct colors, whereas in the other machine it does not. In both I have installed the last version of visual studio code and the last version of LaTeX-Workshop. That tool will automatically run LaTeX and Biber as required, so that might be an option (if you have Perl installed, that is).
