Christopher W Ryan <cr...@binghamton.edu> writes:
> I'm a longtime LaTeX user and a more recent org mode user. So I've always
> had LaTeX installed on any computer on which I was using org mode. I'd like
> to introduce org mode to a co-worker unfamiliar with the whole concept of
> plain text files, markup, and literate programming, etc. Would they need
> to install LaTeX too, or is org mode self-contained and able to export to
> pdf without LaTeX an friends installed?
You /could/ use latexonline. I think it even supports bibtex.
https://github.com/aslushnikov/latex-online
Here’s a minimal example.
* TODO headline
*bf* /emph/ etc.
| a |
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(let ((str (mapconcat 'identity
'("tar -cj %f" "|"
"curl -L --post301 --post302 --post303 -F file=@-"
"\"https://latexonline.cc/data?command=%latex&target=%f\"";
"> %b.pdf")
'" ")))
(setq org-latex-pdf-process (list str)))
#+end_src
How to include all document dependencies (e.g. images) in the tar file is
left as an exercise for the motivated reader. One could probably make a
"dumb" but effective solution by finding all instances of certain file
types in the project folder.
Needless to say, if you use this with real-life documents, you will
probably want to set up your own instance of latexonline.
Rasmus
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