JSON to LaTeX¶
json2latex
is a library for converting a nested Python structure to a format
accessible in LaTeX.
Python¶
-
json2latex.
dumps
(name, obj)[source]¶ Convert a nested Python structure to a string accessible in LaTeX.
Parameters: - name (str) – The name of the LaTeX variable to save the data to.
- obj (dict or list) – The Python object to make accessible in LaTeX.
Returns: A string of LaTeX code.
Return type: str
-
json2latex.
dump
(name, obj, fp)[source]¶ Convert a nested Python structure to a file accessible in LaTeX.
Parameters: - name (str) – The name of the LaTeX variable to save the data to.
- obj (dict or list) – The Python object to make accessible in LaTeX.
- fp (TextIO) – The filelike object to write LaTeX code to.
Example¶
The following Python code saves a file, out.tex
which includes the necessary
LaTeX commands to access the data in LaTeX.
import json2latex
data = dict(a="test", b=[1, 2])
with open('out.tex', 'w') as f:
json2latex.dump('data', data, f)
The same result can be accomplished by running,
json2latex example.json data out.tex
where example.json
is a JSON file containing the same data is the data
dictionary in the Python example.
The code output by JSON to LaTeX can be used as follows. First the file needs to be imported in LaTeX using \input{out.tex}
. Then, the following commands can be used to access the data:
\data
will expand to the full JSON representation of the input,{"a": "test", "b": [1, 2]}
.\data[a]
will expand totest
.\data[b]
will expand to[1, 2]
.\data[b][0]
will expand to1
.\data[b][1]
will expand to2
.\data[b][2]
, and all other undefined values, will expand to??
.