Tell pandoc to generate images from a block of latex

[Micket]

I would like a feature like this

\begin{makeimage}{filename}
\begin{tikzpicture}
 \draw[->] (0,0) -- (1,0) node[above] {A};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{makeimage}

or some syntax a long those lines.

[jgm]

This is too much to expect from pandoc. Pandoc would have to
include a complete interpreter for the tikz language, and backends
capable of producing images from this in a bunch of different
formats.

I would recommend building a solution using the pandoc API.
For example, you could write a Haskell script that took specially marked
code blocks (say, with class tikz), ran them through pdflatex to
produce a PDF, and included the PDF as an image.

+++ Mikael Öhman [Feb 09 13 18:22 ]:

I would like a feature like this

\begin{makeimage}{filename}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[1]-> -- (1,0) node[above] {A};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{makeimage}

or some syntax a long those lines.

--
Reply to this email directly or [2]view it on GitHub..
[xJAuenYDiIoVt3LF3y6841UXDXECnBKsci6BDmn1hV63jkqA32NE9EvH0PCr0FIN.gif]

References

1. file://localhost/var/folders/12/n6gdkl3n1gxbzd6_fjy7f5j80000gn/T//0,0
2. Tell pandoc to generate images from a block of latex #745

[Micket]

That is exactly what I'm trying to suggest, that it would take everything within the makeimage-environment and generate an image.

[jgm]

Right. And I'm saying, it's too complex to be part of pandoc,
but you can probably write a script with the pandoc API that does
this for some limited subset of output formats.

+++ Mikael Öhman [Feb 09 13 19:00 ]:

That is exactly what I'm trying to sugges, that it would take
everything within the makeimage-environment and generate an image.

--
Reply to this email directly or [1]view it on GitHub..
[xJAuenYDiIoVt3LF3y6841UXDXECnBKsci6BDmn1hV63jkqA32NE9EvH0PCr0FIN.gif]

References

1. Tell pandoc to generate images from a block of latex #745 (comment)

[Micket]

Ok, I must have misunderstood since you mentioned actually parsing the actual tikz syntax.
I will look into writing a such a script.