/textext

TexText is a Python plugin for the vector graphics editor Inkscape providing the possibility to add LaTeX generated SVG elements to your drawing

Primary LanguagePythonBSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" LicenseBSD-3-Clause

Status of continuous integration tests GitHub all releases

TexText - A TeX extension for Inkscape

TexText is a Python plugin for the vector graphics editor Inkscape providing the possibility to add and re-edit LaTeX generated SVG elements to your drawing.

TexText dialog with Inkscape

Key features

  • Windows/ Linux/ MacOS support
  • LaTeX generated SVG elements can be re-edited later
  • Multi-line editor with syntax highlighting (Read more...)
  • Compilation with PdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX or LuaLaTex (Read more...)
  • Interoperable scaling in TexText and Inkscape (Read more...)
  • Font size match with Inkscape text (Read more...)
  • Customizable TeX preamble for e.g. additional packages, parskip, parindent, etc. (Read more...)
  • Colorization via TeX commands/ Inkscape is kept after re-editing (Read more...)
  • Alignment anchor of the produced output (Read more...)
  • Preview images (Read more...)
  • Compatibility with TexText down to version 0.4.x

Download

Download of the most recent version (and older ones): https://github.com/textext/textext/releases

Documentation

Documentation hosted at https://textext.github.io/textext. It contains installation and usage instructions.

History

This repository continues the development of the plugin which took place at https://bitbucket.org/pitgarbe/textext until January 2018. Originally, TexText had been developed by Pauli Virtanen based on the plugin InkLaTeX written by Toru Araki.