laravel-latex - Laravel Helper for LaTeX

This is a Laravel package to deal with LaTeX code inside Laravel. Currently, it's main feature is to escape LaTeX code.

Usage

laravel-latex currently only supports escaping LaTeX. This feature is equivalent to htmlentities in PHP. Like for HTML with htmlentities you can be sure that after you've used the Latex::escape on any input the code doesn't contain special characters anymore.

Escaping LaTeX

The typical use case is when you're generating LaTeX code and receive untrusted user input that could contain special characters.

// $input is a string that you want to output inside LaTeX safely
$output = LaTeX::escape($input) 
// $ becomes \$
// \ becomes \\
// and so on.

Installation

This package is not on packagist, so you have to install it manually

Copy files

• Create a packages directory inside your laravel folder
• Copy the repository contents into a directory named packages/lorey/laravel-latex

Extend your composer.json file

Find the autoload key and add the given key value pair inside psr-4:

"autoload": {
      ...
      "psr-4": {
          ...
          "Lorey\\Latex\\": "packages/lorey/laravel-latex/src"
      }
  },

Register the ServiceProvider and the alias

Open up config/app.php and add Lorey\Latex\LatexServiceProvider::class as a provider. Then add 'Latex' => Lorey\Latex\Facades\Latex::class as an alias inside config/app.php.

That's it. You should now the able to invoke laravel-latex like in the examples.