Creating and rendering LaTeX documents
LaTex is a high-standard typesetting system used in publishing and packaging technical and scientific papers and literature, especially those documents with charts, graphs, equations, and tabular data. When creating scientific applications, there should be a mechanism for the application to write LaTeX content, save it in a repository, and render it as a response.
But first, our applications will require a LaTeX compiler that assembles and compiles newly created LaTeX documents. Here are two popular tools that offer various LaTeX compilers:
- TeX Live: This is an open-source LaTeX tool most suitable for creating secured LaTeX documents.
- MikTeX: This is an open-source LaTeX tool popular for its on-the-fly libraries and up-to-date releases.
Our application will be utilizing MikTeX for its LaTeX compilers. Do not forget to update MikTex for the latest plugins using the console, as shown in Figure 6.14.
