From 3a3a0783e832e0a40ef4159b59f368a62a6eece0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Barrett Ruth <br.barrettruth@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2026 13:53:01 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] feat(presets): add tectonic preset

Adds a tectonic preset for the modern Rust-based LaTeX engine, which
auto-downloads packages and requires no TeX installation. Reuses
parse_latexmk since tectonic emits the same file:line: message
diagnostic format.
---
 doc/preview.nvim.txt    |  1 +
 lua/preview/presets.lua | 16 +++++++++++++
 spec/presets_spec.lua   | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 68 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/preview.nvim.txt b/doc/preview.nvim.txt
index be89cde..a3021e4 100644
--- a/doc/preview.nvim.txt
+++ b/doc/preview.nvim.txt
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ Import them from `preview.presets`:
   `presets.typst`              typst compile → PDF
   `presets.latex`              latexmk -pdf → PDF (with clean support)
   `presets.pdflatex`           pdflatex → PDF (single pass, no latexmk)
+  `presets.tectonic`           tectonic → PDF (Rust-based LaTeX engine)
   `presets.markdown`           pandoc → HTML (standalone, embedded)
   `presets.github`             pandoc → HTML (GitHub-styled, `-f gfm` input)
 
diff --git a/lua/preview/presets.lua b/lua/preview/presets.lua
index 88e84e8..1d573e1 100644
--- a/lua/preview/presets.lua
+++ b/lua/preview/presets.lua
@@ -153,6 +153,22 @@ M.pdflatex = {
   open = true,
 }
 
+---@type preview.ProviderConfig
+M.tectonic = {
+  ft = 'tex',
+  cmd = { 'tectonic' },
+  args = function(ctx)
+    return { ctx.file }
+  end,
+  output = function(ctx)
+    return (ctx.file:gsub('%.tex$', '.pdf'))
+  end,
+  error_parser = function(output)
+    return parse_latexmk(output)
+  end,
+  open = true,
+}
+
 ---@type preview.ProviderConfig
 M.markdown = {
   ft = 'markdown',
diff --git a/spec/presets_spec.lua b/spec/presets_spec.lua
index 8e9e89b..c4394c5 100644
--- a/spec/presets_spec.lua
+++ b/spec/presets_spec.lua
@@ -212,6 +212,57 @@ describe('presets', function()
     end)
   end)
 
+  describe('tectonic', function()
+    local tex_ctx = {
+      bufnr = 1,
+      file = '/tmp/document.tex',
+      root = '/tmp',
+      ft = 'tex',
+    }
+
+    it('has ft', function()
+      assert.are.equal('tex', presets.tectonic.ft)
+    end)
+
+    it('has cmd', function()
+      assert.are.same({ 'tectonic' }, presets.tectonic.cmd)
+    end)
+
+    it('returns args with file path', function()
+      assert.are.same({ '/tmp/document.tex' }, presets.tectonic.args(tex_ctx))
+    end)
+
+    it('returns pdf output path', function()
+      assert.are.equal('/tmp/document.pdf', presets.tectonic.output(tex_ctx))
+    end)
+
+    it('has open enabled', function()
+      assert.is_true(presets.tectonic.open)
+    end)
+
+    it('has no clean command', function()
+      assert.is_nil(presets.tectonic.clean)
+    end)
+
+    it('has no reload', function()
+      assert.is_nil(presets.tectonic.reload)
+    end)
+
+    it('parses file-line-error format', function()
+      local output = './document.tex:5: Missing $ inserted.'
+      local diagnostics = presets.tectonic.error_parser(output, tex_ctx)
+      assert.are.equal(1, #diagnostics)
+      assert.are.equal(4, diagnostics[1].lnum)
+      assert.are.equal(0, diagnostics[1].col)
+      assert.are.equal('Missing $ inserted.', diagnostics[1].message)
+      assert.are.equal(vim.diagnostic.severity.ERROR, diagnostics[1].severity)
+    end)
+
+    it('returns empty table for clean output', function()
+      assert.are.same({}, presets.tectonic.error_parser('', tex_ctx))
+    end)
+  end)
+
   describe('markdown', function()
     local md_ctx = {
       bufnr = 1,