New setting needed for watching additional folders: latex-workshop.latex.watch.files.include

[MilesCranmer]

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Is your requested feature related to a problem? Please describe. [Required]

There is this package called ShowYourWork which incorporates data reduction and figure generation (via executing arbitrary scripts) as part of the LaTeX build process. It works really well with LaTeX-Workshop, using the settings listed here: https://show-your.work/en/latest/faqs/#using-latex-workshop-in-vscode. Essentially this lets you use LaTeX-Workshop to generate figures as part of the PDF compilation process!

However, right now, the PDF compilation is only triggered when the LaTeX file changes. However, it should really be triggered when any of the scripts are changed as well - since those ultimately affect the final PDF.

To Reproduce [Required]

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Clone this repository: https://github.com/kazewong/SymbolicGWPopulation_paper, and open it in vscode.
2. Install showyourwork with pip.
3. If needed, update the workspace settings with: https://show-your.work/en/latest/faqs/#using-latex-workshop-in-vscode.
4. Edit the file src/scripts/figure1_subparts.py.
5. The compilation should be triggered when editing this file, but it is not. Compilation is only triggered when editing the file src/tex/ms.tex. How should the script file be added?

Describe the solution you'd like [Required]

To fix this, I believe that a latex-workshop.latex.watch.files.include setting is needed, so that LaTeX-Workshop can watch an arbitrary folder for changes. Then people using showyourwork can simply add their src/scripts folder to this watch - and the PDF recompilation triggered when the scripts change.

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Are you using VSCodium?

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Additional context

Here is the corresponding issue on the showyourwork repo: showyourwork/showyourwork#122.