System.Texrunner.Online

Functions for running and parsing using Tex's online interface. This is mostly used for getting measurements like hbox dimensions and textwidth.

Tex's online interface is basically running the command line. You can see it by running pdflatex without any arguments. The contents can be writen line by and tex can give feedback though stdout, which gets parsed in by this module. This is the only way I know to get info like hbox sizes. Please let me know if you know a better way.

Documentation

data OnlineTex a

Type for dealing with Tex's pipping interface, the current streams are availble though the MonadReader instance.

Instances

Monad OnlineTex

Functor OnlineTex

Applicative OnlineTex

MonadIO OnlineTex

MonadReader TexStreams OnlineTex

Running Tex online

runOnlineTex

Arguments

:: String

tex command

-> [String]

tex command arguments

-> ByteString

preamble

-> OnlineTex a

Online Tex to be Run

-> IO a

runOnlineTex' :: String -> [String] -> ByteString -> OnlineTex a -> IO (a, TexLog, Maybe ByteString)

Interaction

hbox :: Fractional n => ByteString -> OnlineTex (Box n)

Get the dimensions of a hbox.

hsize :: Fractional n => OnlineTex n

Dimensions from filling the current line.

showthe :: Fractional n => ByteString -> OnlineTex n

Parse result from showthe.

onlineTexParser :: Parser a -> OnlineTex a

Run an Attoparsec parser on Tex's output.

texPutStrLn :: ByteString -> OnlineTex ()

Low level

These functions allow give you direct access to the iostreams with tex. The implementation is likely to change in the future and using them directly is not recommended.

type TexStreams = (OutputStream ByteString, InputStream ByteString)

getInStream :: OnlineTex (InputStream ByteString)

Get the input stream to give text to tex.

getOutStream :: OnlineTex (OutputStream ByteString)

Get the output stream to read tex's output.

clearUnblocking :: OnlineTex ()

Clear any output tex has already given.