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Compiling LaTeX (TeX live) in your browser

10 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 0 stories, 10 comments · first 2013-01-19 · latest 2018-01-27

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  1. …in wasm using emscripten. That would be easier to port but heavy on load times. Edit: it exists! https://github.com/manuels/texlive.js/ is a limited port of LaTeX to JS, rendered to PDF
    comment by applecrazy · 2018-01-27 · in Towards LaTeX in the Browser
  2. In asm.js (excluding fonts and documentation) it's about 3 MB https://github.com/manuels/texlive.js/blob/master/pdftex-wor...
  3. …would any one want TeXLive in JS? Where is the advantage? (Please do not answer "portability".) [1] https://github.com/manuels/texlive.js/blob/master/pdftex.js
    comment by nmc · 2014-01-07 · in TeXLive.js
  4. Have you heard of https://github.com/manuels/texlive.js ?
    comment by waldir · 2013-08-26 · in JsPDF - HTML5 PDF generator
  5. Holy crap check this out: https://github.com/manuels/texlive.js It's pdflatex ported to javascript running in browser natively!
  6. I understanding that it uses the command-line TeX compiler. If there is a way to hook it to https://github.com/manuels/texlive.js/ that'd be very interesting.
  7. …I need a few days to think about what startups will become possible with these capabilities! [1] https://github.com/manuels/texlive.js/commit/b7b7eef27846473... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme [3]…
    comment by csense · 2013-01-20 · in I ported LaTeX to Javascript
  8. …files to the supported_packages array. This is what it looks like for the geometry package: https://github.com/manuels/texlive.js/blob/master/website/ma...
    comment by manuels__ · 2013-01-19 · in I ported LaTeX to Javascript
  9. Yes, the font file for italic fonts are currently missing (See https://github.com/manuels/texlive.js/issues/1 ) I could not figure out which file is missing, yet. but as soon as I find it, I will include it and fix this.
    comment by manuels__ · 2013-01-19 · in I ported LaTeX to Javascript
  10. …and download the required files and mount them into the virtual filesystem of emscripten. See https://github.com/manuels/texlive.js/blob/master/website/ma...
    comment by manuels__ · 2013-01-19 · in I ported LaTeX to Javascript