tectonic
A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine, powered by XeTeX and TeXLive. (by tectonic-typesetting)
mdbook-pdf
A backend for mdBook written in Rust for generating PDF based on headless chrome and Chrome DevTools Protocol. (用 Rust 编写的 mdBook 后端，基于headless chrome和Chrome开发工具协议生成PDF) (by HollowMan6)
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| tectonic | mdbook-pdf | |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | 2 | |
| 3,750 | 134 | |
| 2.6% | - | |
| 9.2 | 6.9 | |
| 10 days ago | 3 months ago | |
| C | Rust | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
tectonic
Posts with mentions or reviews of tectonic.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-29.
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I rewrote my CV in Typst and I'll never look back
You may want to try https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic, which downloads files from TeXLive on-demand.
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bard 2.0
v2 has improved TeX engine lookup, improved PDF template look&feel, proper support for MS Windows (where it comes integrated with the Tectonic engine) and a few more new features.
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[Media] Version 0.3 of Inlyne - An interactive markdown renderer written entirely in Rust
There's https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic but I think the issue with that idea is that sure, you can re-implement TeX (it's sufficiently simple) in Rust and then run LaTeX packages on top of it, but then you're back to LaTeX and all its weirdness so you haven't really gained anything compared to LaTeX itself.
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Arch for science
In terms of TeX, I would recommend taking a look at tectonic, a self-contained TeX distribution that auto-installs packages you need when you need them, and “just works” when you call the binary to compile… Because screw messing around with package managers, CTAN and XeTeX. I’ve been using it for around a year and it’s so much easier than any other TeX distribution.
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Porting Python reportlab code to Rust
For example, you can have your main application in something like Deno/Node/python that acts as a server, and then delegate the actual pdf generation to tectonic (https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic) or Typst https://typst.app/blog/2023/beta-oss-launch/
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Another rewrite in rust: Pydantic
tectonic: https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic
- \begin{mess}
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UnTeX - Parsing and formatting TeX documents with Rust - Looking for help
How does it compare with Tectonic?
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Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk (May, 2022)
It's sad that Tectonic conversion to Rust[1] was never finished. For now it's just a wrapper around C and C++ code. By far, it was the most promising thing in this distribution.
[1] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues/459
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LaTex alternative/replacement written in Rust?
The only thing I've seen is https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic but that's an actual re-implementation of TeX Rust.
mdbook-pdf
Posts with mentions or reviews of mdbook-pdf.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-07.
- Share rust docs
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mdbook-pdf: A mdBook backend for generating PDF files
mdbook-pdf depends on Google Chrome / Microsoft Edge / Chromium. The generated page are pretty much alike the one you manually print to PDF in your browser by opening print.html or executing google-chrome-stable --headless --print-to-pdf=output.pdf file:///path/to/print.html, but with customization of PDF paper orientation, scale of the webpage rendering, paper width and height, page margins, generated PDF page ranges, whether to display header and footer as well as customize their formats, and more, as well as automation. It supports all the platform where Google Chrome / Microsoft Edge / Chromium would work. You can check samples of the generated PDF files in the Artifacts here (The Rust book collections generated in x86_64 Windows, macOS as well as Linux).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing tectonic and mdbook-pdf you can also consider the following projects:
miktex - the MiKTeX source code
mdbook-latex - An mdbook backend for generating LaTeX and PDF documents.
texlab - An implementation of the Language Server Protocol for LaTeX
gitbook - The open source frontend for GitBook doc sites
tex-rs - A port of TeX82 to Rust. (WIP)
mdBook - Create book from markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust
Oberon - Oberon parser, code model & browser, compiler and IDE with debugger
rust-headless-chrome - A high-level API to control headless Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. It is the Rust equivalent of Puppeteer, a Node library maintained by the Chrome DevTools team.
arara
mdbook-man - Generate manual pages from mdBooks!
rpm-ostree - ⚛📦 Hybrid image/package system with atomic upgrades and package layering
mdbook-plantuml - mdBook preprocessor to render PlantUML diagrams to png images in the book output directory