[webgen-users] Pipeline for LaTeX files

[Vincent Beffara]

Hi Thomas, and thanks for the advice !

It already gives quite acceptable results after just a few tries. I'm
glad I chose webgen for my website.

TL> * First you need to provide a content processor for your tex files
TL>   that parses the .tex files and converts them to HTML. webgen has
TL>   no built-in content processor to do that - you will need to code
TL>   it yourself.

Mkay, that step will be the longest because of all the tweaking
necessary, but at least I can manage. Transforming LaTeX into markdown
is not too difficult in first aproximation, and then kramdown will do
the rest.

TL> * Then you need to tell the source handler 'page' to use the .tex
TL>   files together with your new content processor (I'll call it
TL>   `texproc`).

Great. This works as expected.

TL> * Drop in a .tex anywhere in your src/ directory and have it
TL>   processed via the source handler 'page' like any .page file.

That works very well. Only thing is, the generated page is still named
whatever.tex, how can I have it renamed whatever.html instead ?

TL> * Set the `template` meta information like with normal .page
TL>   files. Or, for that matter, any other meta information you need
TL>   (like `in_menu).

This I could not figure out how to do. I know how to parse the file to
extract the title, but how do I tell webgen that this is it? Probably
something like context['title']="Whatever" in the content processor, but
I couldn't figure it out.

TL> * And, since webgen assumes that .tex files are in Webgen Page
TL>   Format, you can add a meta information block at the beginning with
TL>   needed meta information. Or just use a meta information file for
TL>   this purpose so that the .tex files don't need to be edited.

I would rather not touch the .tex file in that way, and have webgen
extract the relevant info automatically instead.

Thanks again !

Cheers,

        /vincent

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