Latex docker container

Latex-docker is a fully-equipped Latex+Pandoc+NodeJS+R docker container to be used in document-authoring systems and automated builds such as CI systems. Installing Latex in a typical virtual machine can require up to one and a half hour, while the Latex distribution shipped with Linux distros is usually obsolete.

Note: This container was create when out company was called "FermiumLABS" and not "Fermium". As such, it might be migrated in the future to a different container name.

Features

Includes the following packages and utilities:

• Node.js (defaults to 12)
  • Yarn
• TexLive 2020 full automatically installed from the TexLive repository
  • Pygments (minted support)
• Zip, wget and similar unix tools
• Pandoc (defaults to 2.11.0)
  • pandoc-fignos
  • pandoc-eqnos
  • pandoc-tablenos
• R
  • bookdown
  • rmarkdown

Usage

Pull image (from Hub):

docker pull fermiumlabs/latex-docker

Or build:

git clone https://github.com/fermiumlabs/latex-docker.git
cd latex-docker
#Beware: building it's a very long process
docker build -t fermiumlabs/latex-docker .

Make commands:

make pull    #pull the docker container from the prebuilt public image
make push    #push the image to Docker hub
make build   #build the image from this GitHub repository. long process
make shell   #allows you to interact with the container
make run     #run the container and then destroys it
make start   #start the container
make stop    #stop the container
make rm      #remove the container and free disk space

Options

Options can be specified through docker's arguments.

Node Version

docker build . -t fermiumlabs/latex-docker:node-7 --build-arg node_ver=7

Pandoc Version

docker build . -t fermiumlabs/latex-docker:pandoc-2.1.3 --build-arg pandoc_ver=2.1.3

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