Overleaf Latex Formatter Chrome extension icon

Overleaf Latex Formatter

📦 v0.1.0
💾 16.45KiB
📅 2026-03-09
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Overview

# Chrome Web Store Listing Draft

## Extension Name

Overleaf LaTeX Formatter

## Short Description

Format the active LaTeX file in Overleaf with one click or shortcut.

## Detailed Description

Overleaf LaTeX Formatter is a lightweight Chrome extension that formats the full LaTeX document in your active Overleaf editor.

### Key features

- One-click format from toolbar icon
- In-page `Format` button on Overleaf
- Keyboard shortcut support (`Command+Shift+U` on macOS)
- Local-only processing in browser (no remote formatting service)
- Basic indentation for environments and conditional blocks
- Preserves content inside code/verbatim-like environments (`verbatim`, `Verbatim`, `lstlisting`, `minted`)

### Typical usage

1. Open your Overleaf project
2. Click the extension icon, click the in-page `Format` button, or use the keyboard shortcut
3. The extension formats the entire current file and displays a status toast

### Notes

- Formatting is rule-based and designed for common LaTeX structures
- Complex custom macro styles may require manual adjustment

## Category Suggestion

Developer Tools

## Support URL

https://github.com/chenyangzhu1/Overleaf-LaTeX-Formatter

## Homepage URL

https://github.com/chenyangzhu1/Overleaf-LaTeX-Formatter

## Privacy Policy URL

https://github.com/chenyangzhu1/Overleaf-LaTeX-Formatter/blob/main/PRIVACY.md

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Productivity/tools productivity/tools

Privacy Practices

Not being sold to third parties, outside of the approved use cases
Not being used or transferred for purposes that are unrelated to the item's core functionality
Not being used or transferred to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes

🔐 Security Analysis

This extension hasn't been security-scanned yet.

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