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texlive.js

Compiling LaTeX (TeX live) in your browser

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Compiling LaTeX (TeX live) in your browser

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Observed mentions: 2013-01-19 16:43:22 UTC to 2018-01-27 23:26:07 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
2013	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	7	0	7
2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

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applecrazy·Jan 27, 2018

I wonder if somebody has taken TeX and compiled to the browser 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

In Towards LaTeX in the Browser

dmlittle·Apr 7, 2017

In asm.js (excluding fonts and documentation) it's about 3 MB https://github.com/manuels/texlive.js/blob/master/pdftex-wor...

In Show HN: Resumegen – A single-page LaTeX resume generator

nmc·Jan 7, 2014

I fail to understand your point. I see a "pdftex.js" [1] program which seems to compile a TEX file into a PDF file... which I would call writing TeXLive in JS. If I read correctly, this was partly automated by using "emscripten" to convert the original C++ implementation into a JS implementation (which is why some parts "compile to" JS). I also do not understand what "new assembler language" means in the context of TeXLive. But what I want to understand is: why? Why 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

waldir·Aug 26, 2013

Have you heard of https://github.com/manuels/texlive.js ?

In JsPDF - HTML5 PDF generator

songgao·Apr 30, 2013

Holy crap check this out: https://github.com/manuels/texlive.js It's pdflatex ported to javascript running in browser natively!

In Banyan, the "GitHub of Science", is now in public beta

jimhefferon·Mar 20, 2013

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.

In FlyLatex: a free, open-source real-time collaborative latex editor

csense·Jan 20, 2013

EDIT: I managed to find the answer to this question myself. I want to generate a bunch of bytes programmatically, then have the user click on a button, and allow the user to save a file containing the generated bytes. This should run entirely client-side, with no talking to the server (except for static loading of the HTML page, JS files, images, css, etc). I've been wanting to do this since I wrote my first Java applet way back in the 1990's, and haven't been able to find a way; it's a personal long-standing unscratched itch for me. Apparently with HTML5 it's possible to do this, since this project does it! I wasn't able to find where in the code the downloading happens, and I'm not sure what this concept is called, which makes searching difficult. Thanks! EDIT: Browsing commits instead of the source tree was fruitful [1]. What I'

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m looking for is called Data URI [2]. The inverse operation -- programmatically processing uploads on the client side -- can be achieved with the File API [3]. Now 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] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Using_files_from_we...

In I ported LaTeX to Javascript

manuels__·Jan 19, 2013

I added support for packages (you might have to refresh your browser's cache). The first package supported is geometry. If you want to add another, append the required 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...

In I ported LaTeX to Javascript

manuels__·Jan 19, 2013

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.

In I ported LaTeX to Javascript

manuels__·Jan 19, 2013

Latex packages are not supported automatically. The script has to download the required files in advance which is currently only done for the font file etc. In theory one could search the LaTeX code for '\usepackage' stings 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...

In I ported LaTeX to Javascript