latex

Documentation can be found at https://pythonhosted.org/latex .

Allows calling LaTeX from Python without leaving a mess. Similar to the (officially obsolete) tex <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tex/>_ package, whose successor <http://www.profv.de/texcaller/>_ is not PyPi-installable:

.. code-block:: python

 min_latex = (r"\documentclass{article}"
              r"\begin{document}"
              r"Hello, world!"
              r"\end{document}")

 from latex import build_pdf

 # this builds a pdf-file inside a temporary directory
 pdf = build_pdf(min_latex)

 # look at the first few bytes of the header
 print bytes(pdf)[:10]

Also comes with support for using Jinja2 <http://jinja.pocoo.org/>_ templates to generate LaTeX files.

make_env can be used to create an Environment that plays well with LaTex::

Variables can be used in a LaTeX friendly way: Hello, \VAR{name|e}.

Note that autoescaping is off. Blocks are creating using the block macro:

\BLOCK{if weather is 'good'} Hooray. \BLOCK{endif}

#{comments are supported as well} %# and so are line comments

To keep things short, line statements can be used:

%- if weather is good Yay. %- endif

Example use

.. code-block:: python

from jinja2.loaders import FileSystemLoader
from latex.jinja2 import make_env

env = make_env(loader=FileSystemLoader('.'))
tpl = env.get_template('doc.latex')

print(tpl.render(name="Alice"))

The base.latex demonstrates how \BLOCK{...} is substituted for {% ... %}:

.. code-block:: latex

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\BLOCK{block body}\BLOCK{endblock}
\end{document}

Finally, doc.latex shows why the %- syntax is usually preferable:

.. code-block:: latex

%- extends "base.latex"

%- block body
Hello, \VAR{name|e}.
%- endblock

Translations using Babel

Strings from .latex-templates can be extracted, provided your babel.cfg is setup correctly:

.. code-block:: ini

[jinja2: *.latex]
block_start_string = \BLOCK{
block_end_string = }
variable_start_string = \VAR{
variable_end_string = }
comment_start_string = \#{
comment_end_string = }
line_statement_prefix = %-
line_comment_prefix = %#
trim_blocks = True
autoescape = False