scitex-tex 0.1.5

LaTeX helpers — export to .tex, render preview images, vector formatting — standalone module from the SciTeX ecosystem

scitex-tex

LaTeX helpers — export to .tex, compile to PDF, preview images, vector formatting.

Full Documentation · pip install scitex-tex

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Installation

pip install scitex-tex

Quick Start

import scitex_tex as tx

# Convert a SciTeX-style writer doc → .tex
tx.export_tex(doc, "manuscript.tex")

# Compile .tex → .pdf (returns CompileResult)
result = tx.compile_tex("manuscript.tex")

# Render a snippet to a preview image
tx.preview(r"$\sum_{i=1}^N x_i$", "preview.png")

# Format a numeric value with sig-fig rules
tx.to_vec(1.234e-3, sig_figs=3)

1 Interfaces

Python API

import scitex_tex as tx

# Export — writer doc → .tex string + file
tx.export_tex(doc, "manuscript.tex")

# Compile — .tex → .pdf via pdflatex/xelatex; returns CompileResult
res = tx.compile_tex("manuscript.tex")
print(res.pdf_path, res.log)

# Preview — render a snippet to a PNG
tx.preview(r"$\frac{1}{2}\sum x_i$", "preview.png")

# Vector formatting helpers
tx.to_vec(1.234e-3, sig_figs=3)

Status

Standalone fork of scitex.tex. Only dep is matplotlib (for preview rendering). The umbrella package's scitex.tex import path is preserved via a sys.modules-alias bridge.

Part of SciTeX

scitex-tex is part of SciTeX.

Four Freedoms for Research

0. The freedom to run your research anywhere — your machine, your terms.
1. The freedom to study how every step works — from raw data to final manuscript.
2. The freedom to redistribute your workflows, not just your papers.
3. The freedom to modify any module and share improvements with the community.

AGPL-3.0 — because we believe research infrastructure deserves the same freedoms as the software it runs on.

License

AGPL-3.0-only (see LICENSE).

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