gulp-pdflatex

Gulp plugin for LaTeX PDF

Install

npm install gulp-pdflatex

Usage

Basic usage

const pdflatex = require('gulp-pdflatex')
 
gulp
  .src('document.tex')
  .pipe(pdflatex())
  .pipe(gulp.dest('./build/'))

Options

-shell-escape

You can pass to pdflatex the -shell-escape flag :

const pdflatex = require('gulp-pdflatex')
 
gulp
  .src('document.tex')
  .pipe(pdflatex({ shellEscape: true }))
  .pipe(gulp.dest('./build/'))

TeX inputs paths

To add paths where LaTeX will search for resources :

const pdflatex = require('gulp-pdflatex')
 
gulp
  .src('document.tex')
  .pipe(pdflatex({ texInputs: ['../resources/latex', '../exercises/'] }))
  .pipe(gulp.dest('./build/'))

This will add paths to TEXINPUTS env var in pdflatex subprocess.