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TexText - A TeX extension for Inkscape

TexText is a Python plugin for the vector graphics editor Inkscape <http://www.inkscape.org/>__ providing the possibility to add and re-edit LaTeX generated SVG elements to your drawing.

.. figure:: docs/source/images/textext-with-inkscape.png :alt: TexText dialog with Inkscape

Key features

• Windows/ Linux/ MacOS support
• LaTeX generated SVG elements can be re-edited later
• Multi-line editor with syntax highlighting (see § <usage-dialog-overview_>_)
• Compilation with PdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX or LuaLaTex (see § <usage-tex-compilers_>_)
• Interoperable scaling in TexText and Inkscape (see § <usage-scaling_>_)
• Font size match with Inkscape text (see § <usage-font_>_)
• Customizable TeX preamble (additional packages, parskip, parindent, etc.) (see § <usage-preamble-file_>_)
• Colorization via TeX commands/Inkscape is kept after re-editing (see § <usage-colorization_>_)
• Alignment anchor of the produced output (see § <usage-alignment_>_)
• Preview images (see § <usage-preview_>_)
• Compatibility with TexText down to version 0.4.x

Download

Download of the most recent version (and older ones): https://github.com/textext/textext/releases

Documentation

Documentation hosted at https://textext.github.io/textext. It contains installation <installation-toc_>_ and usage <usage-toc_>_ instructions.

History

This repository continues the development of the plugin which took place at https://bitbucket.org/pitgarbe/textext until January 2018. Originally, TexText had been developed by Pauli Virtanen <http://www.iki.fi/pav/software/textext/>__ based on the plugin InkLaTeX written by Toru Araki.

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.. _documentation: https://textext.github.io/textext .. _installation-toc: https://textext.github.io/textext#installation-toc .. _usage-toc: https://textext.github.io/textext#usage-toc .. _usage-dialog-overview: https://textext.github.io/textext/usage/gui.html#usage-dialog-overview .. _usage-tex-compilers: https://textext.github.io/textext/usage/gui.html#usage-tex-compilers .. _usage-scaling: https://textext.github.io/textext/usage/gui.html#scaling-of-the-output .. _usage-font: https://textext.github.io/textext/usage/faq.html#explicit-setting-of-font-size .. _usage-preamble-file: https://textext.github.io/textext/usage/gui.html#usage-preamble-file .. _usage-colorization: https://textext.github.io/textext/usage/gui.html#usage-colorization .. _usage-alignment: https://textext.github.io/textext/usage/gui.html#usage-alignment .. _usage-preview: https://textext.github.io/textext/usage/gui.html#preview-button