I am currently writing a module to handle all matters related to bibtex language (bibliography language for LaTeX), such as parsing and conversion to others format (DataBase, other bibliography format, XML, JSON, etc…). Since they are a couple of available packages related to LaTeX, I think it would be nice to have a JuliaTeX group. What is the usual procedure in the community to create such a group? Just making it on Github and ask the other packages owners to join?

I think it should be a citations group. No need to limit ourselves just to BibTeX

Sorry I am new to Julia and in some sense scientific computing in general. Can someone explain to me the purpose of this? Is it a Julia-based parser for bibtex entries? Why would that be useful in the context of Jabref? I have a long term goal of working on nicely formatted Latex output for Julia, which I think is an important step in getting people to switch over from Stata. So I have some interest in JuliaTeX group.

No need to do to the general before doing the specific.

[image] pdeffebach: I have a long term goal of working on nicely formatted Latex output for Julia, This problem has actually already been solved in some packages, like my Reduce.jl package, which can turn Julia code into LaTeX code and also display it as LaTeX in IJulia: julia> using Reduce julia> :(sin(x*im) + cos(y*φ)) |> latex |> print \documentstyle{article} \begin{document} \begin{displaymath} \cos \left(\left(\left(\sqrt {5}+1\right) y\right)/2\right)+\sinh \,x\: i \end{displaymath} \end{document} also SymPy.jl can also convert to latex. of course, making a plain Julia package that does this without any external programs would be nice too.

I am very new to Julia, so I dont fully know the ecosystem. A bit of background, I am pre-PHD econ and work mostly in Stata. As much as I hate to say it, Stata does a lot of things well, and one of them is that every single function is compatible with variable labels, and there is a package that allows more flexibility with making latex tables. I think a good way to motivate myself to learn more Julia is to try and write something that will make highly custom latex tables and maybe figure out a way to use variable labels to make publication quality output easily. Plus Julia already has a following in economics because of the Fed’s DSGE models, and the matrix syntax is way more intuitive than Python.

[image] pdeffebach: I think a good way to motivate myself to learn more Julia is to try and write something that will make highly custom latex tables It should be very possible and feasible to do something like this using the Julia language (since Julia has excellent built-in functions for String manipulation, etc) and it would be a good exercise to get started with creating Julia packages. So I’d like to encourage you to go ahead. Is this going to be a general package for generating LaTeX code from Julia objects, or is it specific to Tables?

Probably just tables. I’m most interested in regression output, and I think TikZ is too much work to deal with.

Sorry for being silent for a while. From this conversation, I am even more convince that a JuliaTeX group would be useful to visibility and organization. I will ask the owner of the current packages I know of related to the LaTeX environment. The list below might not be exhaustive, so please feel free to add others. Registered Packages PGFPlots.jl TikzGraphs.jl TikzPictures.jl LaTeX.jl LaTeXStrings.jl PGFPlotsX.jl Unregistered Packages BibTeX.jl BibTeXFormat.jl LatexPrint.jl If enough of the authors agree, we can create the JuliaTeX group in a couple of days.

Why do you say PGFPlotsX.jl is unregistered?

[image] kristoffer.carlsson: Why do you say PGFPlotsX.jl is unregistered? I couldn’t find it in the list of registered packages. That seems to be dated from the 2017-10-01 (maybe that’s the reason). But indeed, after testing I can install it with the Pkg.add() command, my bad. I’m editing my post asap.

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