Integration with LaTeXML

The MMT rbuild action allows to pass options to the target implementation. For the executable of a target the target name itself can be used as an option, i.e. rbuild latexml --latexml=latexmlc .... Other options for latexml are --latexmls=..., --profile=..., --expire=..., --port=..., --preload=..., --path=..., --timeout=..., and --pipe-worker-output.

--timeout=... and --pipe-worker-output are also options for pdflatex. In order to change the executable for pdflatex from xelatex (the default) to pdflatex write:

mmt.jar rbuild pdflatex --force --pdflatex=pdflatex <files>

An alternative way is to use environment variables. The above options have precedence, but settings for --preload=... and --path=... simply accumulate.

There are no environment variable for the options --timeout=... (defaults to 300 seconds) and --pipe-worker-output (to show process output on stdout).

The following environment variables can be set either in your shell or in your build.msl file using envvar in order to customize LaTeXML processing. For envvar the value of variables must be given within double quotes, i.e. envvar LATEXMLEXPIRE "30". Use:

  • LATEXMLC to set the path to your LaTeXML client. The default is to use /path/to/localmh/ext/perl5lib/bin/latexmlc.
  • LATEXMLS to set the path to the LaTeXML server. The default is to use /path/to/localmh/ext/perl5lib/bin/latexmls.
  • LATEXMLPROFILE to set the --profile= argument of LaTeXML. The default is stex-smglom-module.
  • LATEXMLEXPIRE to set the --expire= argument of LaTeXML. The default is 600. Setting it to -1 avoids the server latexmls that is expected to be in the PATH augmented by /path/to/localmh/ext/perl5lib/bin.
  • LATEXMLPORT to set the --port= argument of LaTeXML. The default is between 3334 and 4333 depending on the archive.
  • LATEXMLPRELOADS to set a space-separated list of additional --preload= arguments. The default is none.
  • LATEXMLPATHS to set a space-separated list of additional --path= arguments. Despite this setting /path/to/localmh/sty is always passed as --path= argument.

When creating .pdf files the variable PDFLATEX may be used to set the pdflatex binary. By default xelatex from your PATH will be used.

Also the variables STEXSTYDIR, TEXINPUTS, and PERL5LIB influence the processing. By default they are set to /path/to/localmh/ext/sTeX/sty, .//:/path/to/localmh/sty:/path/to/localmh/ext/sTeX/sty//:, and /path/to/localmh/ext/perl5lib/lib/perl5:/path/to/localmh/ext/LaTeXML/blib/lib respectively. Given variables TEXINPUTS or PERL5LIB are extended at the front by these defaults. A user-defined STEXSTYDIR variable should denote a single directory and will be used as given.

Note that the above absolute path /path/to/localmh/ is just an example that may be different on your system. The folder localmh (that may even be called differently, too) will be computed from your input files.

It is possible to exclude files from builds by adding them into the file META-INF/MANIFEST.MF under the key no-sms, no-omdoc, or no-pdf. The string value following any of these keys and the colon is interpreted as a space delimited list of regular expression. All regular expressions are compared to the short input file name (without path) in turn. If any regular expression (a java pattern) matches (or is illegal) the input file will not be built. A message skipping ... will be shown. Folders can not be excluded by this mechanism. (A java pattern .* matches everything.)