Django-Tex Syntax Highlighting Extension

The Django-Tex Syntax Highlighting extension (vscode-django-tex) is a simple VSCode extension for syntax highlighting in django-tex (.tex) templates. The extension is based on another extension called Django, which does the same for .txt and .html templates, so credits to @batisteo for that.

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Installation

You can install this extension directly from the Extension Marketplace in VSCode. You can also launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter:

ext install bfrangi.vscode-django-tex

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Features

• Syntax Highlighting in django-tex (.tex) templates:

  

  Rest of the example code

  Template code:

  \documentclass{article}
  
  \begin{document}
  
      \begin{center}
  
          \section*{Table for {{date|date}} }
  
          \begin{tabular}{ 
              {% for _ in table.body.rows.0 %}|c{% endfor %}| 
              } 
  
              {# This is a comment #}
              \hline
              % This is another comment
          
              \multicolumn{
                  {{table.headers.first.span}}
                  }{|c|}{ {{table.headers.first.value}} } & 
              \multicolumn{ 
                  {{table.headers.second.span}} 
                  }{c|}{ {{table.headers.second.value}} } \\ 
              
              \hline
  
              \iffalse 
              This is a comment spanning several lines
              \hline \fi
              
              {% for row in table.body.rows %}
              {% for cell in row %}{% if not cell == row.0 %} &
              {% endif %} cell{{cell}} {% endfor %} \\
              {% endfor %}
  
              {% comment %}
              This is another comment spanning several lines
              \hline {% endcomment %}
  
              \hline
          
          \end{tabular}
  
      \end{center}
  
  \end{document}
  

  We could combine the code from the django-tex template with the following function based view to render the LaTeX document:

  from django_tex.shortcuts import render_to_pdf
  from datetime import date
  
  def render_pdf(request):
          table = {
              'headers': { 
                  'first': {
                      'span': 3,
                      'value': 'First Multicol',
                  },
                  'second': {
                      'span': 3,
                      'value': 'Second Multicol',
                  },
              },
              'body': {
                  'rows': [
                      [i for i in range(6)],
                      [i for i in range(6)],
                      [i for i in range(6)],
                      [i for i in range(6)],
                      [i for i in range(6)],
                  ]
              },
          }
          filename = 'filename.pdf'
          template_name = 'path/to/template_name.pdf'
          
          context = {
              'date': date.today(), 
              'table': table, 
          }
  
          return render_to_pdf(
              request, 
              template_name, 
              context, 
              filename,
          )

  This would produce:

  

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Release Notes

Visit the CHANGELOG.md here.

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More

• View on the Visual Studio Marketplace here.
• View on Open VSX here.
• View on GitHub here.

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Enjoy!