Text.LaTeX.Base.Render

Re-exports

data Text

A space efficient, packed, unboxed Unicode text type.

Instances

Eq Text

Data Text

Ord Text

Read Text

Show Text

Typeable Text

IsString Text

Monoid Text

NFData Text

module Data.String

Render class

class Show a => Render a where

Class of values that can be transformed to Text. You mainly will use this to obtain the Text output of a LaTeX value.

Methods

render :: a -> Text

Instances

Render Float

Render Int

Render TeXArg

Render LaTeX

Render Measure

Render TableSpec

Render Pos

Render Label

Render URL

Render HRefOption

Render Theme

Render OverlaySpec

Render ColorName

Render ColorModel

Render Color

Render ColSpec

renderAppend :: Render a => [a] -> Text

Render every element of a list and append results.

renderCommas :: Render a => [a] -> Text

Render every element of a list and append results, separated by commas.

renderFile :: Render a => FilePath -> a -> IO ()

Use this function to render a LaTeX (or another one in the Render class) value directly in a file.

rendertex :: Render a => a -> LaTeX

If you can transform a value to Text, you can insert that Text in your LaTeX code. That is what this function does.

Warning: rendertex does not escape LaTeX reserver characters.

Reading files

readFileTex :: FilePath -> IO Text

If you are going to insert the content of a file in your LaTeX data, use this function to ensure your encoding is correct.