Le mardi 18 septembre 2012 11:04:19 UTC+2, Laszlo Nagy a écrit : > > A big yes and it is very easy. I assume you know how > > > to write a plain text file with Python :-). > > > > > > Use your Python to generate a .tex file and let it compile > > > with one of the pdf TeX engines. > > > > > > Potential problems: > > > - It requires a TeX installation (a no problem). > > > - Of course I requires some TeX knowledge. Learning it > > > is not so complicate. Learn how to use TeX with a text > > > editor and you will quickly understand what you have to > > > program in Python. Bonus: you learn at the same time > > > a good text editing engine. > > > > > > I can not figure out something more simple, versatile and > > > powerful. > > > > > > jmf > > > > > This is a good idea. Thank you. I wanted to learn TeX anyway. The TeX > > installation is problematic. I also want to use this under MS Windows. > > Yes, I know here is MikTeX for Windows. But there is significant > > difference. ReportLab can be embedded into a small program created with > > py2exe. LaTeX on the other side is a 150MB separate installation package > > that must be installed separately by hand. > > > > But in my particular case, it is still a good solution. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Laszlo
I understood, you have Python on a platform and starting from this you wish to create pdf files. Obviously, embedding "TeX" is practically a no solution, although distibuting a portable standalone TeX distribution is a perfectly viable solution, especially on Windows! To "I wanted to learn TeX anyway.": I can only warmly recommend to start with one of the two unicode compliant engines, LuaTeX or XeTeX. jmf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list