Example of building an entire latex document in a jupyter notebook

full_latex_document.ipynb

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   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": null,
   "id": "present-transsexual",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "import tempfile\n",
    "import os.path\n",
    "import subprocess\n",
    "from IPython.display import Image, display"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 39,
   "id": "confidential-glass",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": [
    "def latex(document, dpi=100):\n",
    "    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(prefix=\"texinpy_\") as tmpdir:\n",
    "        path = os.path.join(tmpdir, \"document.tex\")\n",
    "        with open(path, 'w') as fp:\n",
    "            fp.write(document)\n",
    "        subprocess.run([\"lualatex\", path], cwd=tmpdir)\n",
    "        subprocess.run([\"pdftocairo\", \"-singlefile\", \"-transp\", \"-r\", str(dpi), \"-png\", \"document.pdf\", \"document\"], cwd=tmpdir)\n",
    "        im = Image(filename=os.path.join(tmpdir, \"document.png\"))\n",
    "        display(im)"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": 42,
   "id": "tropical-geneva",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [
    {
     "data": {
      "image/png": "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\n",
      "text/plain": [
       "<IPython.core.display.Image object>"
      ]
     },
     "metadata": {},
     "output_type": "display_data"
    }
   ],
   "source": [
    "doc = r\"\"\"\n",
    "\\documentclass[12pt,tikz]{standalone}\n",
    "\\begin{document}\n",
    "\\begin{tikzpicture}\n",
    "\\node [draw] (A) {foo};\n",
    "\\end{tikzpicture}\n",
    "\\end{document}\n",
    "\"\"\"\n",
    "latex(doc, dpi=150)"
   ]
  },
  {
   "cell_type": "code",
   "execution_count": null,
   "id": "configured-opposition",
   "metadata": {},
   "outputs": [],
   "source": []
  }
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  "kernelspec": {
   "display_name": "Python 3",
   "language": "python",
   "name": "python3"
  },
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   "codemirror_mode": {
    "name": "ipython",
    "version": 3
   },
   "file_extension": ".py",
   "mimetype": "text/x-python",
   "name": "python",
   "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
   "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
   "version": "3.9.1"
  }
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 "nbformat": 4,
 "nbformat_minor": 5
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