jcabi-latex-maven-plugin – LaTeX plugin usage

Usage

Place your picture.tex LaTeX file into src/main/latex and then:

<project>
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>com.jcabi</groupId>
        <artifactId>jcabi-latex-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>1.1</version>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <goals>
              <goal>compile</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
              <sources>
                <file>picture.tex</file>
              </sources>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
</project>

Run mvn site and a PNG file will be created in target/site/latex/picture.png.

You should have LaTeX and Netpbm installed on your build machine.

Cutting Edge Version

If you want to use current version of the product, you can do it with this configuration in your pom.xml:

<pluginRepositories>
  <pluginRepository>
    <id>oss.sonatype.org</id>
    <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/</url>
  </pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
<build>
  <plugins>
    <plugin>
      <groupId>com.jcabi</groupId>
      <artifactId>jcabi-latex-maven-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
      [...]
    </plugin>
  </plugins>
</build>