Display LaTeX in terminal

Generate an image from a LaTeX code and display it in the terminal.

Example

Dependencies

• pdflatex
• imagemagick
• imgcat

Note

The imgcat package works with iTerm2 (macOS) or with tmux. Could look into the tycat package to display images on Linux.

In iTerm2, I had to do export PATH=/Users/username/.iterm2:$PATH after installing imgcat.

The size and quality of the generated images can be adjusted in the code via the parameters density, quality and resize.

Todo

• Add an option to just generate the image without displaying it
• Add an argument parser to play with the parameters for generating the image
• Add an option to include LaTeX packages (eg. to generate tables, plots, figures...)
• Add Linux support for image display
• Options to reuse previous command or correct it
• Support for new commands (\R, \f ...)