Wrappers for calling LaTeX/building LaTeX documents.
Project description
Documentation can be found at https://pythonhosted.org/latex .
Allows calling LaTeX from Python without leaving a mess. Similar to the (officially obsolete) tex package, whose successor is not PyPi-installable:
min_latex = (r"\documentclass{article}"
r"\begin{document}"
r"Hello, world!"
r"\end{document}")
from latex.build import build_pdf
# this builds a pdf-file inside a temporary directory
pdf = build_pdf(min_latex)
# look at the first few bytes of the header
print pdf[:10]Also comes with support for using Jinja2 templates to generate LaTeX files.
make_env can be used to create an Environment that plays well with LaTex:
Variables can be used in a LaTeX friendly way: Hello, \VAR{name|e}.
Note that autoescaping is off. Blocks are creating using the block macro:
\BLOCK{if weather is 'good'}
Hooray.
\BLOCK{endif}
\#{comments are supported as well}
%# and so are line comments
To keep things short, line statements can be used:
%- if weather is good
Yay.
%- endif
