textle 0.1.1

A build tool to assist in managing document creation pipelines.

textle

textle is software to automate the use of typesetting and their support tools, like LaTeX and pandoc.

Usage

For more information, see the full documentation on read the docs, or in the docs/ folder.

Installation

$ # textle is python3 only
$ pip3 install textle

Alternatively, install from source by cloning this repo and using

$ python3 setup.py install

To build the documentation to the site folder,

$ mkdocs build

Why

This tool was created as I often create small one-off TeX (sometimes from markdown through pandoc) projects that need to be formatted in similar ways, and that I like building quickly. textle aims to solve these problems: it makes it easy to not only build a project to a PDF once, but even to do it live; and it makes simple the definition of the project. All one has to do is either use the CLI, which was designed to be powerful and simple, or write a Textlefile. The project also aimed to be lightweight, both binary-wise and filesystem-wise, the idea being to not pollute a VCS with random files.

The Usage section demonstrates my common use cases.

Licensing

The logo is licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0

This project is licensed under the MIT License, see LICENSE for more information.