Latex Renderer

Description

The generic component src/app/components/generics/property-input/text-input.component.ts contains a flag latexActive, which is disabled by default. On activation via input properties, text-input components are extended with a toggle slider to enable or disable Latex rendering for the respective input field.

Usage

When activated, the respective text-input field will provide a LaTeX button to open an editor with two text areas and a preview section.

The Additional LaTeX packages field takes all statements, which have to be declared before the \begin{document} instruction in Latex. The LaTeX content field takes every input which should be rendered within the document.

will send a render request to the latex-rendering service on port 8083 and display the result in the appropriate section.

will close the dialog and discard any modifications made.

will cache all modifications to the packages and content input fields and close the dialog.

Whenever the dialog closes with a modified text to render, the text-input component requests a rendering and displays the response as a svg snippet. The text-input signals modified content with a displayed save button.

Drawbacks

The Latex renderer service has been extended by OpenAPI's RESTful interface and has successfully been tested locally, but runs into a rendering error when executed in a docker container using the project's Dockerfile.

Once the docker container works as intended, the latex-renderer feature can be enabled and leveraged for text-input components.