feature request: generate LaTeX source without running pdflatex

uwdata / living-papers

Authoring tools for scholarly communication. Create interactive web pages or formal research papers from markdown source.

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feature request: generate LaTeX source without running pdflatex #41

Closed joshuahhh closed 1 year ago

joshuahhh commented 2 years ago

Use cases:

debugging LaTeX generation
I have a script that does word-count from LaTeX source; I'd like to run it as I write without spending 10 seconds generating a PDF.

Not super-common use-cases, but it would be nice. More generally, it's interesting to ask whether a living-papers executable should be a one-stop shop (a self-contained build system), or whether it could be more versatile as a UNIX-philosophy "do one thing well" process, to be joined with others in an external build system.

jheer commented 1 year ago

This is already supported via the following metadata settings:

output:
  latex:
    pdf: false