# Create text document without LaTeX
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/create-text-document-without-latex/118417
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [August 20, 2024, 2:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/create-text-document-without-latex/118417 "2024-08-20T14:48:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Mikhail\_Kagalenko](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Mikhail_Kagalenko)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2024, 2:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/create-text-document-without-latex/118417/1 "2024-08-20T14:48:20Z")
Is there a package, preferably in pure Julia, that can create Odt/Pdf documents without LaTeX or Pandoc ?
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### Author:  [@homocomputeris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/homocomputeris)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2024, 3:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/create-text-document-without-latex/118417/2 "2024-08-20T15:26:17Z")
It looks like WriteDOCX doesn’t use Latex.
> [@\[ANN\] SummaryTables.jl & WriteDocx.jl](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-summarytables-jl-writedocx-jl/112240):
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> The development team at [PumasAI](https://pumasai.com) is happy to announce the open-source release of two packages: [SummaryTables.jl](https://github.com/PumasAI/SummaryTables.jl) for generating publication-ready tables in HTML, docx, LaTeX and Typst. We wrote SummaryTables from scratch because existing solutions for table generation like PrettyTables did not support all the table structures (for example merged cells) or output formats (docx, Typst) we needed. [grafik] [WriteDocx.jl](https://github.com/PumasAI/WriteDocx.jl) for generating Microsoft Word compatible docx files from scr…
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### Author:  [@Mikhail\_Kagalenko](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Mikhail_Kagalenko)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2024, 3:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/create-text-document-without-latex/118417/3 "2024-08-20T15:56:46Z")
Thank you, I have seen WriteDocx, but not SummaryTables. I would like to move away from Microsoft file formats, so those two packages do not fit my needs.
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### Author:  [@jules](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jules)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2024, 4:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/create-text-document-without-latex/118417/4 "2024-08-20T16:01:02Z")
For PDFs, maybe try Typst, while not pure Julia it is also not LaTeX. It is easy to install via its jll package, and there are a couple new packages that are supposed to help using it with Julia. SummaryTables can also export to Typst.