handLaTeX

handLatex makes it easy to inject automated, pseudo-random variations in LaTeX documents' output reproducing the typical quirks of a left to right, top to bottom handwriting.

Getting Started

The package has two components:

a LaTeX package, hand, that can be included in any valid LaTeX document via the usual
a specialized command-line frontend, handlatex, able to process LaTeX documents using the hand package.

What the package does NOT include is a handwritten font to go with your document. A good start point is the LaTeX Font Catalogue of Calligraphical and Handwritten Fonts.

Prerequisites

A working TeX distribution, supporting LaTeX 2e
Python 3.5.x or higher

Installing

The two components are meant to be installed separately:

the hand package (coposed of the files hand.dtx, hand.ins, and hand.def) should be installed as any other LaTeX package, following yout local TeX distribution's documentation. For example, under TeX Live it is sufficient to execute:

latex hand.ins

the handlatex frontend should be installed as any other Python module, using the provided distutils script (setup.py). Typical invokation will be, with proper privileges:

 python setup.py install

Be warned that since the installation uses distutils, it does not produce enough metadata about the installed files. As a consequence, it is NOT possible to remove the package using pip>10.0

You can verify that installation has completed successfully by running:

handlatex sample.tex

Contributing

This project was originally developed by Sylvain Fourmanoit, and hosted at handlatex.googlecode.com under the GPLv2 License - see the LICENSE file for details.

The package is considered mature, and the only work done by Davide Fauri was to update the script to make it compatible with Python 3.5 or higher, and to update this README.

If you have any modifications to suggest, feel free to ask.

Authors

Sylvain Fourmanoit - Initial work
Davide Fauri - Upgrade to Python3