InDesign to accept TeX / LaTeX inputs
Like InDesign is accepting Quark inputs till some version (say version 4.0), I'm expecting such feature to accept TeX / LaTeX input too as many of Authors are still using TeX / LaTeX as inputs and the same need to typeset using TeX / LaTeX software.
If InDesign is accepting these inputs, we can directly include in InDesign and proceed the further typesetting process.
One difficulty is usually TeX / LaTeX inputs will have much mathematical equations.
Raja, Gejaraj
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Bars ito commented
You guys should take a look at this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/indesign/comments/13aqeex/latex_integration/It allows you to input pdf files containing equations from a LaTeX code.
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Ray Jenson commented
4 years on, and no real hint that this will ever happen.
There are LOTS of open source tools to model LaTeX with, and even a readily-available design spec for things like mathematical outputs.
There are a couple of online tools that generate images from LaTeX (.png and .jpg) but that's really adding an extra 5-6 steps that could be bypassed if we had this.
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Mohammed Shahid Rahman commented
Its really difficult to work with equations in InDesign. Latex interface would be a wonderful tool and it will make Indesign more powerful. If matah interface is not possible then atleast there should be a provision to write Latex code in Indesign which will convert it to equation.
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Dereatha Cross
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This seems like a very easy thing to do. We could place a LaTeX box and then enter in LaTeX code which InDesign can then process into an output format.
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Stephen Booth commented
Even if Id just integrated to a separate LaTeX compiler (e.g. MiKTeX) to generate a PDF image and read in the resulting file as an object that would be something.
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Qing
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Now it canbe done by a JavaScript tool -- In-TeX/LaTeX :
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Helmut Konz
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It should be possible to create an import on InDesign accepting some output of Latex (special compiler)