latex2svg
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Render LaTeX markup and equations to SVG
latex2svg
Python wrapper and CLI utility to render LaTeX markup and equations as SVG using dvisvgm.
Usage
Python 3 module
from latex2svg import latex2svg
out = latex2svg(r'\( e^{i \pi} + 1 = 0 \)')
print(out['depth']) # baseline position in em
print(out['svg']) # rendered SVG
CLI utility
$ ./latex2svg.py --help
usage: latex2svg.py [-h] [--preamble PREAMBLE]
Render LaTeX code from stdin as SVG to stdout. Writes metadata (baseline
position, width, height in em units) as JSON to stderr.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--preamble PREAMBLE LaTeX preamble code to read from file
$ echo "\\( e^{i \\pi} + 1 = 0 \\)" | ./latex2svg.py > euler-identity.svg
{"width": 4.458858333333334, "height": 0.8262691666666666, "depth": 0.012687666666666667}
Resulting SVG:
License
This project is licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE.md for details.
© 2017 Tino Wagner
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