Feel free to profit from the LateX setup, which is far from perfect, but beautiful enough to get the job conveniently done.

https://publications.mppmu.mpg.de/?action=search&mpi=MPP-2016-76

Use hot reloading with

make hot

and open the file in a pdf viewer that supports file updates (e.g. xpdf or SumatraPDF). Configure latexmk's $pdf_previewer option to start it automatically.

Install LateX

sudo apt -y install texlive-full

Build with

make

Then open main.pdf in the out directory!