Latex Writer Variants

Author:	Guenter Milde <milde@users.berlios.de>
Date:	2008-05-20

This sandbox project is a place to try out and discuss variants of the latex2e writer.

Latex writer variants could be:

• enhancements or improvements of the "standard" latex writer, or
• custom latex writers for special needs.

See the index for already existing writer variants, e.g.

• latex2e_adaptive_preamble reduces the size of the generated preamble by only including stuff really needed in the document.

• latex2e_external_stylesheet replaces most of the generated preamble by a latex stylesheet.

• latex2e_headings_as_multi_line_strings.py tries to make the latex2e writer source more readable by the use of raw literal strings instead of escaped backslashes (see also latex2e_headings_as_multi_line_strings.diff)

• latex2e_listings provides an alternative implementation of the new --literal-env option to select the environment for typesetting literal blocks.

  This options allows e.g. to choose lstlisting from the listings.sty LaTeX package. See also docs/syntax-highlight-with-listings.html

The docs dir contains generic documentation and discussion. Writer specific documentation is placed in the respective "literate" source.

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See also the latex-writer related sandbox projects

• ../dkuhlman/Docs,
• ../docpy-writer,
• ../jensj/latex_math,
• ../latex_directive, and
• ../verse-writer.