saadq/latrex

A small library for running LaTeX child processes in Deno.

latrex

A small library for running LaTeX child processes in Deno.

Docs

https://doc.deno.land/https://deno.land/x/latrex@v1.1.1/mod.ts

Requirements

LaTeX must be installed on your machine. You can download it here.

Usage

TeX file

import { latrex } from "https://deno.land/x/latrex@v1.1.1/mod.ts";

const document = await Deno.readFile("./document.tex");
const pdf = await latrex(document);
await Deno.writeFile("./output.pdf", pdf);

TeX string

import { latrex } from "https://deno.land/x/latrex@v1.1.1/mod.ts";

const document = `
  \\documentclass{article}
  \\begin{document}
  hello world
  \\end{document}
`

const pdf = await latrex(document);
await Deno.writeFile("./output.pdf", pdf);

With all options

const pdf = await latrex(document, { 
  command: 'xelatex',
  args: ['-no-file-line-error', '-no-pdf'],
  inputs: ['./styles', './fonts'],
  passes: 3,
  errorLogsPath: './my-tex-errors.log'
});

Options

Option	Type	Default	Description
command	string	'pdflatex'	The command to run for your compiling your LaTeX document (pdflatex, xetex, /user/bin/custom-tex, etc).
args	string[]	['-halt-on-error']	Arguments passed to the command.
passes	number	1	The number of times to run options.command. Some documents require multiple passes. Only works when doc is a string.
inputs	string[]	N/A	A list of absolute paths to the directory which contains the assets necessary for the doc (such as fonts or cls files, etc).
errorLogsPath	string	N/A	The path to the file where you want to save the contents of the error log to.