Lightweight, LaTeX inspired markup document editor.

While undoubtedly LaTeX is the best tool for the task, when you need to write simpler essays, texts or documents it's somewhat of an overkill. And it is huge, more than 3GB for the whole package! As that was too much for me and my tasks at hand, I decided to write Lartype. I've been using it and I hope you find an use for it too. It also allows to write highly modular documents, with each section written in a different file, so if many people are working on a single document, each should be able to edit a different part without this causing merge problems.

Judge by yourself. That's an essay we wrote for an assignment, completely on Lartype. Lartype can generate tables, style text, embed images, align and position sections and more.

A 64 bit, x86 compatible system is required to compile Lartype projects, as a 64 bit version of is used to render the PDF files. Python 2 is also required. Any modern Linux system should cover this requirements without having to do anything at all.

Download, clone or pull (--depth 1 recommended!) and run install_lartype. Lartype will be installed to $HOME/bin and added to your path. No privileges required!

• Run lartype -init to initialize a new Lartype project on the current directory. All the required folders and files will be created, along with a demo project.
• Run lartype to compile your project to a PDF file.
• Run lartype -full to compile your project to a PDF file without header nor footer.
• If you update Lartype -by installing a new version-, run lartype -update on your project directory to update the Lartype interpreter. Until you do this, you'll still be using the previous version of Lartype.
• Should any Lartype files be missing from your project directory, run lartype -fix to recreate them.

Initializing a Lartype Project

Create a new folder and run lartype -init inside it to initialize a new Lartype project. When you initialize a new Lartype project, three folders (images, lartype and sources) and a file (lartype_sources.cfg) are automatically generated for you.

The images folder is where you should put pictures that you want to use in your Lartype document.

The lartype folder shouldn't be messed with, as it contains the Lartype interpreter. You may, though, modify the footer.html and header.html located within, in case you want to add or change your document header or footer, respectively.

The sources folder contains all the Lartype sources that make up your document. When it's first created, this last folder contains one single file: main.lty.

The lartype_sources.cfg file contains all the Lartype sources that you want to be compiled on your project. Each line should contain the name of a single file located inside the sources folder, without the .lty extension. When this file is first created, the first line says main, for main.lty. If you add more files to sources, you should add them to this file so they are added to the document once it's generated. Also, the files are compiled in the order they are listed in lartype_sources.cfg, so bear that in mind. You can even safely delete main.lty and replace it by any other .lty file and everything will work fine if you replace the filename accordingly in lartype_sources.cfg.

Writing Your First Lartype Page

(TODO)

Styling Text

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Text Location and Alignment

(TODO)

Lists

(TODO)

Adding Pictures to Your Document

(TODO)

Adding References

(TODO)

Left and Right Blocks

(TODO)

Parallel Sections

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Creating Tables

(TODO)

Breaks, Lines and Page Breaks

(TODO)

Inline Code Fragments and Code Blocks

(TODO)

Adding New Files to Your Document

(TODO)

TODOs and Comments

(TODO)

Alternate Image Sizes

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