[Tex/LaTex] Python and latex

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Is there any way to compile a .tex to pdf without having to install latex.

Is there any python package for this ?

Or even better is there any small stand-alone portable software for this.

Thanks a lot

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If you're using matplotlib, you have a basic TeX expression parser which works quite well. But to go beyond that you need to install a (La)TeX distribution.

It should be possible to use matplotlib to produce graphics containing equations written in TeX by turning off everything else in the graph and plotting no data. That would be an interesting question, but one for the python experts rather than for here, assumign you can't figure it out yourself.

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In your short example, you are trying to print file names. But in general, file names will not be valid LaTeX, since they may contain underscores, etc. If you do something like

print('\\verb|' + name + '|\n')

then the file names will be wrapped in a \verb command and thus special characters won't be an issue.

Also, you don't need the % after the python environment.

Depending on what you ultimately want to do, you may wish to consider the pythontex package. It provides a lot of additional features, but also involves a three-step compile process (LaTeX, pythontex.py, and then LaTeX again)

[Tex/LaTex] Pure python compiler

Ok, try this:

let Python create a latex document
compile it via the DOS-Cmd shell into a pdf (check Latex doc how to do it)
Python can also call shell commands, so just put the previous command into code

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