Re: Calling LaTeX from within Cocoon

2010-05-02 Thread Hugh Sparks
I haven't quite got this ready for publication yet, but take a look at: http://www.csparks.com/jeuler/index.jhtml It's written for cocoon 2.2. Somewhat unique is that it uses a shell script to perform one stage of the pipeline. It works under linux and windows (with cygwin). Here are

Re: Calling LaTeX from within Cocoon

2010-04-29 Thread warrell harries
Definitely possible. You could have a look at the FINS project as a good example of how to to this sort of thing. In that case they use XML as an interface to JFreeChart. You can write a custom serializer and/or transformer. Of course the preferred way is to use XSL:FO and a number of people have

Calling LaTeX from within Cocoon

2010-04-28 Thread Peter Flynn
A common solution to the requirement to generate publication-quality PDF is to use XSLT to create LaTeX code and rely on LaTeX's understanding of documents and library of pre-written packages to create the PDF. For real-time web applications it would be very useful to be able to drive this