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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:17:19 -0700 (PDT)
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Le mardi 18 septembre 2012 11:04:19 UTC+2, Laszlo Nagy a =E9crit=A0:
> > A big yes and it is very easy. I assume you know how
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> > to write a plain text file with Python :-).
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> > Use your Python to generate a .tex file and let it compile
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> > with one of the pdf TeX engines.
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> > Potential problems:
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> > - It requires a TeX installation (a no problem).
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> > - Of course I requires some TeX knowledge. Learning it
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> > is not so complicate. Learn how to use TeX with a text
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> > editor and you will quickly understand what you have to
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> > program in Python. Bonus: you learn at the same time
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> > a good text editing engine.
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> > I can not figure out something more simple, versatile and
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> > powerful.
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> > jmf
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> This is a good idea. Thank you. I wanted to learn TeX anyway. The TeX=20
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> installation is problematic. I also want to use this under MS Windows.=20
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> Yes, I know here is MikTeX for Windows. But there is significant=20
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> difference. ReportLab can be embedded into a small program created with=
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> py2exe. LaTeX on the other side is a 150MB separate installation package=
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> that must be installed separately by hand.
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> But in my particular case, it is still a good solution.
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> Thanks,
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>     Laszlo

I understood, you have Python on a platform and starting
from this you wish to create pdf files.
Obviously, embedding "TeX" is practically a no solution,
although distibuting a portable standalone TeX distribution
is a perfectly viable solution, especially on Windows!

To "I wanted to learn TeX anyway.":
I can only warmly recommend to start with one of the two
unicode compliant engines, LuaTeX or XeTeX.

jmf