Docker Xelatex

• Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links
• Base Docker Image
• Introduction
• Quickstart
• Makefile Example
• Useful links

Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

• latest, v1.1.0 (Dockerfile)

• v1.0.0 (Dockerfile)

Base Docker Image

• debian:8

Introduction

Docker container used for compile XeLaTex documents and deploy a generated PDF file.

You can use to do instantaneous compile for each save with inotify-tools.

Quickstart

• Simple make:

docker run --rm -v $(shell pwd):/data moss/xelatex make

• Auto compile for each save:

docker run --rm -v $(shell pwd):/data moss/xelatex make view

Makefile Example

######################
#      Makefile      #
######################

filename=your_file_without_extension

pdf: 
	xelatex ${filename}
	xelatex ${filename}

text: html
	html2text -width 100 -style pretty ${filename}/${filename}.html | sed -n '/./,$$p' | head -n-2 >${filename}.txt

html:
	@#latex2html -split +0 -info "" -no_navigation ${filename}
	htlatex ${filename}

view:
	while inotifywait --event modify,move_self,close_write ${filename}.tex; \
		do xelatex -halt-on-error ${filename} &&   xelatex -halt-on-error \
		${filename}; done

clean:
	rm -f ${filename}.{ps,pdf,log,aux,out,dvi,bbl,blg,snm,toc,nav}

Useful links

Github remote

Docker Hub repo