PyLaTeX

Latex is very easy to generate from any programming language, because it's just text. I created a Python package for it with an easy and extensible API: https://github.com/JelteF/PyLaTeX If you want to create something similar, be sure to escape untrusted input though. With an escape function similar to the one in my library. Otherwise it's very easy for an attacker to execute arbitrary commands.

Luckily I haven't had the need to create pdfs yet now that I'm using Go. However, if I would, I would generate LaTeX instead of PDFs directly. I did the same in Python a and it has turned out great: https://github.com/JelteF/PyLaTeX The API can be made much more high level, because of all functionality and packages LaTeX has. The most important thing is to have a good escape function that is used by default for all text, otherwise it's very easy to execute arbitrary shell commands for an attacker. If anyone wants to create a Go package similar to mine, feel free to contact me if you want any more advice (email in github profile).

PyLaTeX does that: with doc.create(Section('A section')): doc.append('Some regular text and some ') doc.append(italic('italic text. ')) https://github.com/JelteF/PyLaTeX

Related: https://github.com/JelteF/PyLaTeX, which is a "Python library for creating LaTeX files".

The two libraries I've created both use a combination of 3to2 and pasteurize to convert the python 3 code to python 2. The only issues I've run into are new error types that I could not use. But there seem to be quite some issues open: https://bitbucket.org/amentajo/lib3to2/issues?status=new&sta... In case you want to see the scripts I use to change the python3 code to python 2 and make it work with pip: https://github.com/JelteF/PyLaTeX/blob/master/convert_to_py2... https://github.com/JelteF/PyLaTeX/blob/master/setup.py

When I needed a Python generation, I created abstractions between Python and LaTeX. The documentation is far from finished, but it should be fairly understandable with the examples. Docs: https://jeltef.github.io/PyLaTeX/ Code: https://github.com/JelteF/PyLaTeX

Amazing additions, to bad it's not open source like ShareLatex. Will probably use this when working with none techsavy people. Shameless plug: Do you need generated LaTeX documents, or just partial pieces, like tables and plots. In that case PyLaTeX[0] is probably worth looking at. 0. https://github.com/JelteF/PyLaTeX

If you ever need easy LaTeX generation for data generated or changed in Python. You should try out https://github.com/JelteF/PyLaTeX. It supports tables, plots and matrices. All with sane defaults.

This is very recognizable. I have had this a lot, but accidentily I had an idea 2 days ago that I have put more time in already than any other of my fun plans or cool projects. It's called PyLaTeX [1], it's a Python interface for LaTeX that supports creating documents and snippets. One of the coolest features I think is the conversion of NumPy matrices to LaTeX ones. The HN new page [2] is just a bit rough on someone posting that doesn't know a lot of people that can upvote it, reddit [3] was a lot more forgiving. [1] https://github.com/JelteF/PyLaTeX [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7075212 [3] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1vcqxw/pylatex_...