LaTeX

A convenient way to run LaTeX on various platform using Docker (latexmk, pdflatex...).

Example

Assuming that you have a file foo.tex in your current working directory that you want to convert into a PDF foo.pdf:

Mac/Linux

docker run --rm -t --user="$(id -u):$(id -g)" --net=none -v "$(pwd):/tmp" leplusorg/latex latexmk -outdir=/tmp -pdf /tmp/foo.tex

Windows

In cmd:

docker run --rm -t --net=none -v "%cd%:/tmp" leplusorg/latex latexmk -outdir=/tmp -pdf /tmp/foo.tex

In PowerShell:

docker run --rm -t --net=none -v "${PWD}:/tmp" leplusorg/latex latexmk -outdir=/tmp -pdf /tmp/foo.tex

Help

To know more command-line options of latexmk:

docker run --rm --net=none leplusorg/latex latexmk -h

texlive vs texlive-full

Version 1 of this image was using the texlive-full debian package to include as much TeX Live packages pre-installed as possible. But the resulting docker image was over 4 GB making it slow to download and breaking some CI/CD disk limits (including the free tier of GitHub Actions that I use). To keep the image usable by as many people as possible, I decided with version 2 and above to switch to the default texlive package.

If you need more TeX Live packages, you have the following options:

• use version 1 of this docker image (i.e. leplusorg/latex:1.0.0@sha256:af368a8fda9fea612eb5f54025e0c0735c4d4a3ff67b0853e9e8a804a6a24d64).
• use the image this fork is based on (i.e. aergus/latex:latest).

Debian vs Alpine

By default these images are based on the Debian Linux distribution and follow the same release cycle as the parent debian docker images. But there is also an Alpine Linux variant of these images for people who prefer smaller images. The images are tagged with prefix alpine and follow the same release cycle as the parent alpine docker images. Note that although the risk might be low, Alpine Linux is using an alternative implementation of the C standard library called Musl which is smaller but might behave differently from the more widely used GNU C library. Hopefully Alpine's TeX package maintainers are thoroughly testing the ports but if you encounter any weird behavior with the alpine variant, we recommend trying the latest debian variant to see if the issue persists.

Request new tool

Please use this link (GitHub account required) to request that a new tool be added to the image. I am always interested in adding new capabilities to these images.