jupyterbook-latex [IN DEVELOPMENT]

Sphinx extension to support LaTeX infrastructure for Jupyter Book.

This repository is a development project to improve LaTeX support in Jupyter Book.

Get started

To get started with jupyterbook-latex, first install it through pip:

pip install jupyterbook-latex

then, add jupyterbook_latex to your extensions, in a Sphinx conf.py:

extensions = ["jupyterbook_latex"]

# autoload the sphinx.ext.imgconverter extension, optional (default is True)
# jblatex_load_imgconverter = True
# turn root level toctree captions into top-level `part` headings, optional (default is to auto-infer)
#  jblatex_captions_to_parts = True

OR in the jupyterbook config.yml:

sphinx:
    extra_extensions:
    - jupyterbook_latex
    # config:
    #   jblatex_load_imgconverter: true
    #   jblatex_captions_to_parts: true

Extension Details

This extension does not provide an actual Sphinx LaTeX theme, instead it instantiates a number of transforms (for LaTeX builders only) that manipulate the AST into the required format:

1. Overrides some configuration:

• latex_engine -> xelatex
• latex_theme -> jupyterBook
• appends necessary LaTeX commands to the preamble

2. When a latex builder is specified:

• Set's up sphinx.ext.imgconverter (if jblatex_load_imgconverter)
• Replace sub-headers in the root document
• Create headings from the root-level toctree captions (if jblatex_captions_to_parts)
• Move bibliographies to the bottom of the document

Issues

A list of issues that need to be addressed:

https://github.com/executablebooks/meta/issues/169

Developer Notes

A repository that contains many different project configurations for testing and development is available, along with implementation idea and notes