rethore / latex_generator

A python package to generate reports and slides from a python file.

Latex Generator

latex_generator is a python package to generate reports and slides from a python file.

But why?

• Because we can
• Sometimes it's easier to generate slides with for loop (for instance to do image based annimations).
• To conveniently blend markdown linguo and latex linguo
• The python script can orchestrate the whole compilation of the report of the presentation (à la MakeFile)
• To easily build automatic reports / slides generation from tests

Pre-requisits

• Python 2.7
• Pandoc
• Latex distribution
• Mac or Linux

Example:

rep = report()
rep.section('Introduction')
rep.addl('hello.')
rep.addl("EllipSys has run within {minutes} minutes over {ncpu} CPUs using the server called {srvname}.",
        minutes=10.0, srvname='servername', ncpu=72)
rep.fig('surf01.grd.png', caption='This is fabulous!', label='fig:fabfig')
rep.eq(r'x^2 = \int_a^b \ln{x} d x', label='eq:crazy_eq')
rep.subsection('My section')
rep.addl(r'Look at Eq.\ref{eq:crazy_eq} and Fig.\ref{fig:fabfig} if you are not convinced.')
rep.compile()
rep.clean()
rep.open_pdf()