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Authoring tools for scholarly communication. Create interactive web pages or formal research papers from markdown source.

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feature request: generate LaTeX source without running pdflatex

joshuahhh opened this issue · comments

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Use cases:

  • debugging LaTeX generation
  • I have a script that does word-count from LaTeX source; I'd like to run it as I write without spending 10 seconds generating a PDF.

Not super-common use-cases, but it would be nice. More generally, it's interesting to ask whether a living-papers executable should be a one-stop shop (a self-contained build system), or whether it could be more versatile as a UNIX-philosophy "do one thing well" process, to be joined with others in an external build system.

commented

This is already supported via the following metadata settings:

output:
  latex:
    pdf: false