On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:27 PM, mrkiwi <mrk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I need to take a template ( written in latex ) and fill it with data, > then send it through pdflatex to get the pdf output, and return it to > the user. Django makes this easy, but not quite as smooth as an html > template. > > I use render_to_string and output this to a file, then run pdflatex on > that file - i know this is not ideal (should really be done in memory) > so any advice on how to do this would be appreciated. > > However the point of this email is that characters in the data such as > &, #, \, $ and some others are special latex characters and have to be > escaped, so i wrote a templatetag called escapelatex (i saw someone > has written escapejs, so i followed the naming convention) - my > question is where should i post this tag so others can critique it, > improve it, and possibly add it to contribs for all to use?
I'd suggest your best approach would be to publish it as a standalone reusable library on something like Github or Bitbucket. This allows you to publish the source, and allows others to easily use the source and contribute fixes. While I have great affection for LaTeX as a language (I wrote both my theses using LaTeX), I don't think it's appropriate for the core of Django. Ultimately, Django is a web framework, and HTML/JS are the focus of web work. Given that it's easy to distribute a template tag library as a third-party feature, your library doesn't need to be in the core, either. By maintaining a set of LaTeX tools as a third-party library, you are able to: * keep the development pace independent of Django's release cycle (particularly important during initial development) * help distribute the development load outside of the Django core team (since you aren't dependent on Django's core team to commit changes) * help keep the size of Django's core library under control (end-users are able to choose the extensions and languages they want to support) Best of luck with your LaTeX library. Yours, Russ Magee %-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
