Question

[Starow]

Hello,
I read your introduction/presentation and you're saying:
"Everything else you want you can still add to the document by adding LaTeX formatted strings to the container class you want it to be in."
Could you provide an example ?

I would like to add a Tittle page at the very beggining of a document created with PyLaTeX.
Is it possible to add directly "raw" latex command such as \newpage or a group of these kind of lines with PyLaTeX ?
Thank you in advance! :)

[JelteF]

Yes, any object inherits from one of the container baseclasses can also contain "raw" latex strings.
You can just do:

doc = Document()
doc.append(r'\newpage')
doc.append('This is on a new page')

This is also why you should always escape user supplied strings using the utils function.

In some cases it might be easier to use the Command class. This is mostly the case when your commands need arguments that aren't hard coded.
If you need a specific environment (like enumerate wiht a begin and end command) it might be easiest to inherit LatexNamedContainer, since that does that for you and you can use the with syntax that way.

[Starow]

Thank you for these infos and the fast reply!
I passed everything inside some r'text' strings and it works :)

[JelteF]

No problem. BTW the r before r'text' is just so you don't have to escape all the backslashes its something that is built in to python.

[LydiaF]

Thank you for this info :)

[jdonkervliet]

Note that this no longer works. You should use wrap your raw latex in NoEscape or use the Command class in case you want to insert a command.