tinytex VS pandoc

# Based on https://github.com/analythium/quarto-docker-examples/blob/main/Dockerfile.base # Version number of Quarto to download and use ARG QUARTO_VERSION="1.4.529" ARG OS_USERNAME=quarto ARG UID=1000 ARG GID=1000 FROM eddelbuettel/r2u:20.04 # librsvg2-bin is to allow SVG conversion when rendering a PDF file # (will install the rsvg-view binary) RUN set -e -x && \ apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \ pandoc \ pandoc-citeproc \ curl \ gdebi-core \ librsvg2-bin \ python3.8 python3-pip \ && apt-get clean \ && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* RUN set -e -x && \ install.r shiny jsonlite ggplot2 htmltools remotes renv knitr rmarkdown quarto # Download and install Quarto ARG QUARTO_VERSION RUN set -e -x && \ curl -o quarto-linux-amd64.deb -L https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/releases/download/v${QUARTO_VERSION}/quarto-${QUARTO_VERSION}-linux-amd64.deb \ && gdebi --non-interactive quarto-linux-amd64.deb \ && rm -f quarto-linux-amd64.deb # Should be done for the user; won't work if done for root # (quarto will say that "tinytex is not installed") ARG OS_USERNAME ARG UID ARG GID RUN set -e -x && \ groupadd -g $GID -o "${OS_USERNAME}" && \ useradd -m -u $UID -g $GID -o -s /bin/bash "${OS_USERNAME}" USER "${OS_USERNAME}" # Install tools like tinytex to allow conversion to PDF RUN set -e -x && \ quarto install tool tinytex --update-path RUN set -e -x && \ printf "\e[0;105m%s\e[0;0m\n" "Run tlmgr update" \ && ~/.TinyTeX/bin/x86_64-linux/tlmgr update --self --all && \ ~/.TinyTeX/bin/x86_64-linux/fmtutil-sys --all # See https://github.com/rstudio/tinytex/issues/426 for explanation RUN set -e -x && \ printf "\e[0;105m%s\e[0;0m\n" "Run tlmgr install for a few tinyText packages (needed for PDF conversion)" \ && ~/.TinyTeX/bin/x86_64-linux/tlmgr install fvextra footnotebackref pagecolor sourcesanspro sourcecodepro titling USER root RUN set -e -x && \ mkdir -p /input USER "${OS_USERNAME}" WORKDIR /

Some of the others have mentioned other installs, but they can pull down a lot of packages which might not be ideal if it's not your PC (even the TexLive install is quite chonky.) I'd personally recommend: TinyTex.

See https://yihui.org/tinytex

that will install a lightweight latex distribution ready to render your rmarkdown documents. just restart rstudio and give a try after this process (for more stuff, see https://yihui.org/tinytex/ )

Have you tried the things mentioned at the link? https://github.com/yihui/tinytex/issues/24

There is the tinyTeX distribution which was designed for use with R, but can be used on its own as well. It's a subsetted version of TeX live and available from https://yihui.org/tinytex/

If you'd like to install only a small subset of packages, there are projects like TinyTeX.

Tinytex is a relative new Latex distribution by Yihui Xie from the R community. The distribution is tiny, less than 100mb, which is a great alternative to TexLive and MikTex for basic users.

My main authoring tool is then Emacs Markdown Mode (https://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/). For data entry, it comes with some bells and whistles similar to org-mode, like C-c C-l for inserting links etc.

I seldom export my notes for external usage, but if it is the case, I use lowdown (https://kristaps.bsd.lv/lowdown/) which also comes with some nice output targets (among the more unusual are Groff and Terminal). Of cource pandoc (https://pandoc.org/) does a very good job here, too.

This is one of those things that the ever-amazing pandoc (https://pandoc.org/) does very well, on top of supporting virtually every other document format.

Folks feel the same way about Markdown versus LaTeX: why use something significantly more complicated where a looser, human-readable grammar works better?

For any other situations, I use https://pandoc.org/, or, generate a Word doc scriptomatically.

pandoc toolchain pour builder une version confortable/imprimable en phase de travail (ePub, pdf, docx, html)

Congrats on the launch, I guess, but there are so many free options that I can't think of a situation where paying $0.25 per document would be justified...? Just to name a few:

Back in the days, I used to use XSL-FO [0] and it was okay. It was not very precise but it rarely if ever broke, and was perfectly integrated with an XML/XSLT solution. Yeah, this was a long time ago.

Last month I used html-to-pdfmake [1] and it's also not very precise and more fragile, but very efficient and fast.

Yet another approach would be to pro grammatically generate .rtf files (for example) and use Pandoc [2] to produce PDFs (I have not tried this in production but don't see why it wouldn't work).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSL_Formatting_Objects

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-to-pdfmake

[2] https://pandoc.org/

Others have mentioned static site generators. I like Hakyll [1] because it can tightly integrate with Pandoc [2] and allows you to develop custom solutions if your needs ever grow.

[1]: https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/

[2]: https://pandoc.org/

Have you compared it with a conversion by pandoc (https://pandoc.org/)?

I have used it to kickstart a blogging project that I wish to come back to soon. The Lua inter-op for custom readers, writers and filters is great but I wish there was more editor integration and even perhaps an official IDE/editor with built-in debugging features (probably something already do-able with Emacs but I haven't checked). The only blocker for my project is no support for "ChunkedDoc" for Lua filters [1] which forces me to write more code and a complicated Makefile.

[1]: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/9061