Actually, that's exactly what I'm trying to do. I have database tables
whose
columns contain TeX fragments. I am trying to generate various file outputs
from database searches - TeX, pdf, etc.
I could construct the tex file on the fly with python strings as you
suggest but
that's rather cumbersome. It's simpler with a template.
I've also considered using the xml.element api to construct my own template
but that would set me back several weeks. I'm trying to finish. :/
I have something that almost resembles a template. It is not the most
flexible
or elegant but it works. I have a single replacement string between
\begin{document} and \end{document} and I simply replace this one token
with a
string.replace()
On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 11:39:18 AM UTC-5, Drew Ferguson wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:01:45 -0700 (PDT)
> Ken <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote:
>
> > I would like to write a tex/latex file with django tags in it. Load it
> > with the template loader and render it with a context. The problem is
> > that my tex/latex file has quite a few '{%' in them. They are
> > conventional in TeX for writing readable macros and are used to escape
> > the newline. I could try rewriting them but before I do, I thought I'd
> > ask if this is even worth tackling. TeX uses curly braces as grouping
> > and percent signs as a comment.
> >
> > The TeX file would look rather confusing but the more important question
> > is what the loader does when it sees braces and brace comments. Is it
> > possible to reassign the block and variable tags?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
>
> I have done this in the past (with Plone rather than django) by calling a
> python wrapper script to generate a file which latex can process;
> essentially construct the Latex source as python strings
> and have the script assemble the components you want. The objective was to
> generate a PDF file by Latex with variables fed from SQL & a web page. But
> this may not be what you are interested in.
>
> Are you trying to render a Latex source document as a web page?
>
> --
> Drew
>
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