I'd recommend targeting xelatex rather than pdflatex for consistency with the rest of the Jupyter ecosystem. That said, this sounds like a fascinating project!
On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 06:15 Vadim Kantorov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ian! > > Thanks for the advice. I'll dig into the settings subsystem. it would be > cool if one could point the settings to be loaded from any Contents file. > Then one could store the editor settings alongside with the LaTeX sources, > like .editorconfig. > > I guess the first step may be implementing a "pdflatex" package that would > interface with an abstract Contents service. > > Concerning compiling pdflatex, there is texlive.js ( > https://github.com/manuels/texlive.js/) that achieved the feat and is > showcased at http://manuels.github.io/texlive.js/ and > https://github.com/googledrive/drivetex. It even seems quite fast. > > Best, > Vadim > > On Friday, August 18, 2017 at 2:49:52 PM UTC+2, Ian Rose wrote: > >> Hi Vadim, >> >> That sounds like a very cool project. What you suggest sounds reasonable >> to me, and would be a neat use of emscripten (have you managed to compile >> pdflatex!?). The '@jupyterlab/services' npm package defines an abstraction >> for a filesystem (which mirrors the Jupyter Contents API), and that >> filesystem need not be a physical one on disk somewhere. You are correct in >> noting that this is what the Google Drive plugin implements. >> >> The main challenge with a completely client-side application is to make >> sure that none of the plugins you rely on actually make any server >> requests. For the most part this should be doable. The main blocker I see >> at the moment is the settings system: JupyterLab recently moved to a >> server-side settings system, which is used by components like the >> file-editor for things like editor settings and keybindings. There has been >> some talk of providing a client-side fallback for the settings system, but >> it does not exist at the moment (AFAIK). >> >> Cheers, >> Ian >> > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 12:40 PM, Vadim Kantorov <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Hi. I'm looking to create a client-side LaTeX editor based on JupyterLab. >>> >>> For that, I'd need to create a File System backed by local storage and >>> synchronized with Emscripten's file system. >>> >>> Would you have any advice of how to do that? >>> >>> I'd imagine I need to follow >>> https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab-google-drive. >>> >>> Are there any blockers for running JupyterLab completely in-browser, >>> without any server extensions? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> Vadim >>> >> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Project Jupyter" group. >>> >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> >> >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/835e10f1-97af-4c53-9f8e-2be04ea54623%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/835e10f1-97af-4c53-9f8e-2be04ea54623%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Project Jupyter" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/1debb308-d6d1-4eb2-baf9-7c002db57d30%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/1debb308-d6d1-4eb2-baf9-7c002db57d30%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Jupyter" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jupyter/CAM3SX47o%2BFm_Z4CG5bMQ9kJ5QA1hyyu15UKOYXTxr5TVT9jyxg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
