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https://github.com/jetspiking/webtex
ASP .NET Server for Serving JIT Compiled LaTeX using ELDYN
https://github.com/jetspiking/webtex
latex technical-writing tools-and-automation website
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ASP .NET Server for Serving JIT Compiled LaTeX using ELDYN
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/jetspiking/webtex
- Owner: jetspiking
- License: mit
- Created: 2024-02-08T14:11:44.000Z (9 months ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-05-02T16:25:16.000Z (7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-05-03T00:19:46.333Z (7 months ago)
- Topics: latex, technical-writing, tools-and-automation, website
- Language: C#
- Homepage: https://webtex.nl
- Size: 335 KB
- Stars: 2
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# WebTeX
ASP .NET Server for Serving JIT Compiled LaTeX using ELDYN
# Description
WebTeX is a demo project to demonstrate how [ELDYN](https://github.com/jetspiking/ELDYN) can be used to JIT-compile dynamic LaTeX content and serve it to a user. To demonstrate this, the [NASA APOD API](https://api.nasa.gov/) is used to generate a LaTeX page according to the ELDYN templates.
# Recommendations
This project directly returns the PDF as a response. This can cause problems in some browsers, where the content is not displayed inside the browser. In those cases the content is downloaded and only visible when the user opens the downloaded PDF. In addition, to support acting on form data (textfields, checkboxes, buttons inside the PDF), it is recommended to display the PDF inside a context window. An embed in HTML could allow hot-reloads and redirects after posts (to a new dynamically generated PDF via LaTeX), for example.
# Prerequisites
A TeX distribution must be installed. TeX Live was utilized for this project and can be installed by running `sudo apt-get install texlive-full`. `WebTeX` utilizes `Eldyn`. Prior to running `chmod +x ELDYN-lin-x64` should be performed. Otherwise `WebTeX` will not have the required permission to launch `Eldyn` and start the file manipulation.
# Run
- **Operating System:** `Linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS`
- **Start Server:** `chmod +x WebTeX`
`./WebTeX` or `nohup ./WebTeX` to run in background and allow closing SSH.
- **Reverse Proxy:** Utilized `nginx` to forward to localhost configuration.
- **Certificate:** Utilized `certbot` to install a Let's Encrypt certificate:
`sudo apt-get install certbot python3-certbot-nginx`
`sudo certbot --nginx -d webtex.nl`
# Thank you for using WebTeX
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