latex output

[matsavage]

Hey, I came across this package a while ago and was really impressed,

I spent a while working on a LaTeX character sheet template, and was wondering if you'd be interested in a PR to build outputs from your package for the template I built.

https://github.com/matsavage/DND-5e-LaTeX-Character-Sheet-Template

Can't figure out how to get in touch with you other than here.

[canismarko]

Thanks for reaching out. Yeah, I'd definitely be interested, your character sheets look really nice.

One of the struggles I've had with the fillable-PDF route I'm using now is that I can't figure out how to get rich-text into the PDF fields, and this would be a fix to that, too: #3

For now, I think it's probably safest to add a new command line option for turning on your template. If it's stable, and works better than the fillable PDF route, I'd be interested in making it the default. Might also take care of this issue too: #75

FYI: I already have an option for using the same DND-5e-LaTeX-Template through the --fancy option.

[matsavage]

@Tim-Jackins matsavage/DND-5e-LaTeX-Character-Sheet-Template#7 (comment)

[Tim-Jackins]

Hello! I'm in the process of jinja-ifying the wonderful character sheet created by @matsavage so it can be rendered by this package.

[matsavage]

I had the original intention of making it more like a LaTeX module, so each page could be dropped in like the monsterboxes etc in that PR I did for this project, unsure about adding dependences etc in LaTeX

[Tim-Jackins]

Yeah, my hope was just to get the character files in here with jinja that uses the character object to build. As far as rich text goes do we have any intention to allow users to write the longer section descriptions (other features and the equipment section) with minimal markdown (ie translate text here to \textbf{text here})?

[matsavage]

I believe that's already handled by the markdown syntax used in this library already

[Tim-Jackins]

Thanks for the info. I really need to look more into this package...

[canismarko]

Sorry for the slow response. Thanks for working on this. I was looking into ways to bundle the latex dependencies in with the package, but I couldn't find a way that doesn't involve actually installing them into texlive or whatever. If you have any ideas please let me know.

The ability to parse the rst into proper latex should be all there now (#70). It uses the rst_to_latex function in latex.py. The handling of headings is a little screwy still, since it doesn't quite know how to parse different heading levels from rst to latex.

[bw-mutley]

Hi there, I just want to know the state of the art regarding this. @Tim-Jackins , please let me know if you have a template running already. I've already decided to start using this template on my own sheets - it is really beautiful by the way - and I am willing to provide any help if needed. The character sheet part is straighfoward to adapt, I just see the spells list part would have to be worked a bit in order to get the corresponding fields from the docstrings.
==EDIT==
NVM, the spells part is also easy. @Tim-Jackins , just let me know how is your template so I can have a somewhat 'stardarized' form.

@canismarko , @matsavage thank you and congratulations for your work!

[matsavage]

@canismarko sorry this is coming slow, I totally missed that comment from about 3 weeks ago. This point was where I sort of got stuck on this too, I think the options are either:

• Make the character sheets a tex package and upload them to cran, which I'm not sure how to do etc
• Package the character sheet up in the same way as has been done for dungeon-sheets and require installation in texmf
• Include my repo as a git submodule or just copy all of the code into this project

I'm really not sure which of these is preferable

[canismarko]

If you can make the last option work, I think that would be the easiest for people using dungeonsheets since there's no need to worry about texmf or installing extra latex packages. I tried this with the D&D latex template (https://github.com/rpgtex/DND-5e-LaTeX-Template#project-install-using-texinputs), though and couldn't get it to work.

[matsavage]

I'll try and have a look over the weekend with the submodule route, I think something just needs to be done with working directories or environment variables

On a linux environment with the DND template installed in examples/DND-5e-LaTeX-Template the following command worked for me:
TEXINPUTS=".:./DND-5e-LaTeX-Template:$TEXINPUTS" pdflatex wizard2_features.tex

Therefore I think the following course of action will work:

• Set up git to import this package, and mine into some sort of submodule folder
• Set the TEXINPUTS variable when the pdflatex (or XeLaTeX as is required for font support in my package) is run

This should then let LateX know where the required classes are and then work as expected

Edit: not 100% on how this will work on windows/mac however or if you install the module from pip
Edit2: looks like pip does support this pypa/pip#577