Portable LaTex
Dato che ho l'esigenza di creare dei documenti LaTex sulla mia macchina Windows 11, ho verificato quali soluzioni siano possibili.
Esiste un'ampia scelta di possibilità ma dato che il mio utilizzo sarà saltuario, ho ritenuto che la versione MikTex fosse la più vicina alle mie esigenze, soprattutto per il fatto che si trova disponibile anche in versione Portable.
Ho quindi deciso di installarla sotto la mia cartella usuale per i software portable:
c:\Users\[username]\Documents\sw\
Nella sezione MikTex Downloads si trova la versione Windows, ed è possibile scegliere l'installer standard, la versione "portable" oppure la versione installabile a riga di comando, utile per distribuire il software in automatico su numerosi computer aziendali.
La versione "portable" in realtà non richiede un installer separato: va semplicemente
scaricato l'installer per windows e rinominato in miktex-portable.exe. Una volta
eseguito è necessario assicurarsi di scegliere la seguente cartella di destinazione:
c:\Users\[username]\Documents\sw\miktex\
al cui interno si troverà lo script miktex-portable.cmd pronto per essere lanciato.
Tale script una volta lanciato apre una piccola icona nella barra di windows, dalla quale è possibile lanciare il terminale TeXworks. Oppure, in alternativa, è possibile eseguire ogni programma che si troverà nel seguente percorso:
c:\Users\[username]\Documents\sw\miktex\texmfs\install\miktex\bin\x64\
Un file di partenza che ho incominciato ad utilizzare è il seguente:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\input{./pandoc_syntax.tex}
\begin{document}
\input{./title.tex}
\tableofcontents
\newpage
\section{Hello World!} % creates a section
\textbf{Hello World!} Today I am learning \LaTeX. %notice how the command will end at the first non-alphabet charecter such as the . after \LaTeX
\LaTeX{} is a great program for writing math. I can write in line math such as $a^2+b^2=c^2$ %$ tells LaTexX to compile as math
. I can also give equations their own space:
\begin{equation} % Creates an equation environment and is compiled as math
\gamma^2+\theta^2=\omega^2
\end{equation}
If I do not leave any blank lines \LaTeX{} will continue this text without making it into a new paragraph. Notice how there was no indentation in the text after equation (1).
Also notice how even though I hit enter after that sentence and here $\downarrow$
\LaTeX{} formats the sentence without any break. Also look how it doesn't matter how many spaces I put between my words.
For a new paragraph I can leave a blank space in my code.
\end{document}
dove ho importato la seguente definizione dei colori:
% color syntax from pandoc
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{fancyvrb}
\newcommand{\VerbBar}{|}
\newcommand{\VERB}{\Verb[commandchars=\\\{\}]}
\DefineVerbatimEnvironment{Highlighting}{Verbatim}{commandchars=\\\{\}}
\newenvironment{Shaded}{}{}
\newcommand{\AlertTok}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{1.00,0.00,0.00}{\textbf{#1}}}
\newcommand{\AnnotationTok}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.38,0.63,0.69}{\textbf{\textit{#1}}}}
\newcommand{\AttributeTok}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.49,0.56,0.16}{#1}}
\newcommand{\BaseNTok}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.25,0.63,0.44}{#1}}
\newcommand{\BuiltInTok}[1]{#1}
\newcommand{\CharTok}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.25,0.44,0.63}{#1}}
\newcommand{\CommentTok}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.38,0.63,0.69}{\textit{#1}}}
\newcommand{\CommentVarTok}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.38,0.63,0.69}{\textbf{\textit{#1}}}}
\newcommand{\ConstantTok}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.53,0.00,0.00}{#1}}
\newcommand{\ControlFlowTok}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.00,0.44,0.13}{\textbf{#1}}}
\newcommand{\DataTypeTok}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.56,0.13,0.00}{#1}}
\newcommand{\DecValTok}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.25,0.63,0.44}{#1}}
\newcommand{\DocumentationTok}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.73,0.13,0.13}{\textit{#1}}}
\newcommand{\ErrorTok}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{1.00,0.00,0.00}{\textbf{#1}}}
\newcommand{\ExtensionTok}[1]{#1}
\newcommand{\FloatTok}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.25,0.63,0.44}{#1}}
\newcommand{\FunctionTok}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.02,0.16,0.49}{#1}}
\newcommand{\ImportTok}[1]{#1}
\newcommand{\InformationTok}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.38,0.63,0.69}{\textbf{\textit{#1}}}}
\newcommand{\KeywordTok}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.00,0.44,0.13}{\textbf{#1}}}
\newcommand{\NormalTok}[1]{#1}
\newcommand{\OperatorTok}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.40,0.40,0.40}{#1}}
\newcommand{\OtherTok}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.00,0.44,0.13}{#1}}
\newcommand{\PreprocessorTok}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.74,0.48,0.00}{#1}}
\newcommand{\RegionMarkerTok}[1]{#1}
\newcommand{\SpecialCharTok}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.25,0.44,0.63}{#1}}
\newcommand{\SpecialStringTok}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.73,0.40,0.53}{#1}}
\newcommand{\StringTok}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.25,0.44,0.63}{#1}}
\newcommand{\VariableTok}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.10,0.09,0.49}{#1}}
\newcommand{\VerbatimStringTok}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.25,0.44,0.63}{#1}}
\newcommand{\WarningTok}[1]{\textcolor[rgb]{0.38,0.63,0.69}{\textbf{\textit{#1}}}}
% end of color syntax
e la seguente prima pagina:
\begin{titlepage}
\newcommand{\HRule}{\rule{\linewidth}{0.4mm}}
\center
\textsc{\LARGE Marjor heading}\\[0.5cm] % Major heading such as course name
\textsc{\large Main heading}\\[0.5cm] % Main heading such as the name of your university/college
\textsc{\large Course title}\\[1.5cm] % Minor heading such as course title
\includegraphics[width=4cm]{logo.jpg}\\[1.5cm]
\HRule\\[0.4cm]
{\huge\bfseries Project}\\[0.4cm]
\HRule\\[2.5cm]
{\large\textit{Author}}\\
Federico \textsc{Thiella}
\vfill\vfill\vfill
{\large\today}
\vfill
\end{titlepage}
Per inserire del codice sorgente correttamente colorato e formattato, ho pensato di scrivere il codice in formato Markdown e di tradurlo in LaTex con Pandoc
pandoc codice.md -t latex
anche Pandoc sarà oggetto di un prossimo articolo!