WebTeX

Web-based LaTeX editor and compiler. This application use Flask.

Docker image of this application is here

Features

• Edit, compile and preview LaTeX document on the web.
• LDAP authentication support (using LDAP3).
• Automatic correction (using RedPen).

Default account is Admin and password is webtex

Requirements

• Python 3.x
  • Flask
  • LDAP3
• Java
• TeX Live (texlive-lang-cjk)
  • This application use platex to compile LaTeX document.
• RedPen
• Ace
  • Placement path: static/ace-builds/src-noconflict/
• pdftotext (poppler-utils)

Setup

1. Download and extract this project

2. Install texlive-lang-cjk (or texlive-langcjk), openjdk-7-jre (or jre7-openjdk), poppler

3. Install Python3 modules using pip: pip install -r pip-requirements.txt

4. Install Ace.js

   $ wget https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace-builds/archive/v1.2.5.tar.gz -O /tmp/ace.tar.gz
   $ mkdir /tmp/ace-builds
   $ tar -xvf /tmp/ace.tar.gz -C /tmp/ace-builds --strip-components 1
   $ mkdir -p WebTeX/static/ace-builds
   $ mv /tmp/ace-builds/src-noconflict WebTeX/static/ace-builds/
   $ rm -f /tmp/ace.tar.gz && rm -rf /tmp/ace-builds
   

5. Install RedPen

   $ wget https://github.com/redpen-cc/redpen/releases/download/redpen-1.7.4/redpen-1.7.4.tar.gz -O /tmp/redpen.tar.gz
   $ mkdir redpen
   $ tar -xvf /tmp/redpen.tar.gz -C redpen --strip-components 1
   $ export PATH=$PATH:$PWD/redpen/bin
   $ rm -f /tmp/redpen.tar.gz
   

6. Run this application

   $ python WebTeX/app.py
   

Author

Kensuke Kosaka