jtex - MyST Markdown

jtex is a command line tool (CLI) for rendering $\LaTeX$ documents from Jinja-style templates. This package uses nunjucks (a port of Jinja) as the template engine with a modified environment and syntax that plays well with $\LaTeX$ ’s markup.

Create a Template 🆕

Learn how to create a $\LaTeX$ template for a scientific journal article or Beamer presentation using jtex and MyST Markdown.

Browse Templates 🚀

Our $\LaTeX$ templates are curated by the MyST community and include templates to render over 400 journals!

Command Line Interface ✨

Use jtex to list templates, quickly render content, or fix your template.yml, or parse your $\LaTeX$ files for used packages.

Project Goals¶

Provide a data-driven templating markup for $\LaTeX$
Provide validation of templates and supplied options when rendering a template
Work with standardized frontmatter to make authors, affiliations, etc. easy to template
Work with the MyST ecosystem of tools
Support many user supplied templates, local templates, etc.

Not Goals

Translation of MyST to $\LaTeX$ , instead see myst-to-tex or using pandoc with jtex

Installation¶

Install the package globally using npm:

npm install -g jtex

and confirm correct installation by typing:

jtex --version

Usage with MyST¶

The main usage for jtex is with myst and curvenote command line tools, both of which can compile markdown into $\LaTeX$ for templating with jtex.

Simple Example¶

A document can be used very simply with the document as doc, the contents of which are documented in Document Model. Be sure to include the [-IMPORTS-] and the [-CONTENT-].

% template.tex
\documentclass{article}

[-IMPORTS-]

\title{[-doc.title-]}
\author{[-doc.authors[0].name-] ([-doc.authors[0].email-])}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

[-CONTENT-]

The End!
\end{document}

Guide

Create a Template