This piece of software lets you generate a .pdf document from a .tex template, by interactively filling fields defined in the template.

Create your .tex template and leave tags enclosed in a pair of <>, such as <FIELD1>. Then, run make. You will be prompted to input the textual value of each field. Then, a .pdf document will be generated from your .text template, each field having been replaced by the corresponding value.

This piece of software relies on three files: generate.py, Makefile, and template.tex.

When the make command is run, the generate.py script is executed. This script reads the input file, that is template.tex, and performs a regex lookup with the pattern <[^>]+> on this input. For each result, the user is prompted to input the text they would like the field to be replaced with. Then, the processed text is written to a temporary .tex file.

The temporary .tex file is then passed to pdflatex, and a document named output.pdf is produced.

• Python 3
  • The babel package
• pdfLaTeX
• GNU Make