python-markdown extension to output LaTeX (rather than html) - i.e. to provide support for converting markdown to LaTeX.

Authored by Rufus Pollock: http://rufuspollock.org/

Reworked by Julian Wulfheide (ju.wulfheide@gmail.com) and Pedro Gaudêncio (pmgaudencio@gmail.com)

Usage:

1. Command Line. A script entitled markdown2latex.py is automatically installed. For details of usage see help::

$ markdown2latex.py -h

2. As a python-markdown extension::

>>> import markdown
>>> md = markdown.Markdown(None, extensions=['latex'])
>>> # text is input string ...
>>> latex_out = md.convert(text)

3. Directly as a module (slight inversion of std markdown extension setup)::

>>> import markdown
>>> import mdx_latex
>>> md = markdown.Markdown()
>>> latex_mdx = mdx_latex.LaTeXExtension()
>>> latex_mdx.extendMarkdown(md, markdown.__dict__)
>>> out = md.convert(text)

History

Version: 1.0 (November 15, 2006)

• First working version (compatible with markdown 1.5)
• Includes support for tables

Version: 1.1 (January 17, 2007)

• Support for verbatim and images

Version: 1.2 (June 2008)

• Refactor as an extension.
• Make into a proper python/setuptools package.
• Tested with markdown 1.7 but should work with 1.6 and (possibly) 1.5 (though pre/post processor stuff not as worked out there)

Version 1.3: (July 2008)

• Improvements to image output (width)

Version 1.3.1: (August 2009)

• Tiny bugfix to remove duplicate keyword argument and set zip_safe=False
• Add [width=\textwidth] by default for included images

Version 2.0: (June 2011)

• PEP8 cleanup
• Major rework since this was broken by new Python-Markdown releases

Version 2.1: (August 2013)

• Add handler for non locally referenced images, hyperlinks and horizontal rules
• Update math delimiters