Knockout

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A Python typesetting application, licensed under the GPL 3.0 or later.

Runs out of the box on linux systems, start with ./kt.py test.html Try a few example files: ./kt.py tutorial.html (Other systems may need to install freetype-py and pyhunspell)

An example of an output file generated by this app can be seen at test.pdf. The file syntax is human-readable and based on xml/html; documentation for its specialized modules for mathematical rendering and graph plotting is coming.

Install

This application should work out of the box on a default Ubuntu (15.10) installation. It is written in Python 3.5. However, some libraries might be necessary for SVG rendering because of cairoSVG, which depends on the tinycss module. tinycss is easily installable through pip. If you want emoji support, you will also need to install the fonttools module. fonttools is also easily installable through pip.

Installing pip

You may have pip installed already. (pip is the python package manager.) If you are not sure, run the terminal command

sudo apt-get install python3-pip

Installing tinycss

pip3 install tinycss

If tinycss still can’t be found, this is most likely because pip installed tinycss for the wrong version of python. In that case, use the more specific command

python3.5 /usr/bin/pip3 install tinycss

This problem is quite common, and users with the same problem on other platforms should also try running pip from python itself should its libraries install in the wrong locations.

Installing fonttools

pip3 install fonttools

Again, if fonttools still can’t be found, try running pip from python itself to install in the correct location.

Special thanks to the developers of Pygments, Pyphen, fontTools, and CairoSVG for their valuable free libraries.