gdoc2latex

Converts Google Docs files to LaTeX. Try it in your browser with the gdoc2latex GUI.

Install

1. Install Node.js
2. Install gdoc2latex with npm i -g gdoc2latex

Use

1. Download your Google Doc with File > Download > Web page (.html)
2. Unzip the document, and run gdoc2latex -i YourDocumentName.html
3. Compile the generated LaTeX and BibTeX sources
4. ???
5. Profit!

Supported features

Supported:

• Title: Sets the title (maximum 1)
• Subtitle: Sets the subtitle (maximum 1)
• Heading 1: Creates a \section
• Heading 2: Creates a \subsection
• Heading 3: Creates a \subsubsection
• Heading 4: Creates a \subsubsubsection
• Bold: Wraps in \textbf
• Underline: Wraps in \underline
• Italics: Wraps in \textif
• Superscript: Wraps in \textsuperscript
• Subscript: Wraps in \textsubscript
• Center algined text: Wraps in \centering
• Right algined text: Wraps in \raggedleft
• Tables: Creates centered table with borders
• Unordered lists: Creates itemize
• Ordered lists: Creates enumerate
• References (use BibTeX in footnotes): Creates index.bib and \cites it
• Footnotes: Inserts \footnote
• Comments: Added at bottom of Latex document, indexed alphabetically
• Line breaks: Inserts \\
• Page breaks: Inserts \pagebreak
• Web and email links: Inserts \href
• Internal links to sections: Inserts \hyperref
• Images: Inserts figure
• Image captions (use alt text): Inserts \caption
• Charts (linked and unlinked): Inserts figure
• Chart captions (use alt text): Inserts \caption
• Drawings (linked and unlinked): Inserts figure
• Drawing captions (use alt text): Inserts \caption
• Custom image, chart and drawing widths
• Code `inline` and in blocks (```)

Not supported:

• Custom fonts
• Headers and footers
• Custom table widths
• Custom table, image, chart and drawing alignment
• Custom font sizing

(these aren't definitely out of scope, but they haven't been implemented yet)

Detailed usage

See help with gdoc2latex --help:

$ gdoc2latex --help
Usage: gdoc2latex [options]

Converts Google Docs files to LaTeX

Options:
  -i, --input <file>           Input HTML file, downloaded from Google Docs (default: "index.html")
  -o, --output <file>          Output TeX file (default: "index.tex")
  -f, --force                  Overwrite output TeX file if it already exists and create output directory if necessary (default: false)
  -s, --template-start <file>  Custom starting template TeX source
  -e, --template-end <file>    Custom ending template TeX source
  -h, --help                   display help for command

For example:

gdoc2latex --input doc.html --output doc.tex --force --template-start mystart.tex --template-end myend.tex

The input HTML file should be downloaded from Google Docs with File > Download > Web page (.html)

The template start should set up and open a LaTeX document and the end should close a LaTeX document. See the default_templates folder for examples.

Output

gdoc2latex will output two files: a .tex and .bib

With pdflatex and bibtex, index.tex and index.bib can be compiled with:

pdflatex -shell-escape index
bibtex index
pdflatex -shell-escape index
pdflatex -shell-escape index

This will result in a complete index.pdf

Contributing

1. Install Node.js
2. Clone this repository
3. Run npm install

From here you can edit the code. You can run the tests with npm test, or check it builds with npm run build. To install it locally for further testing on your own files, run npm run build then npm install -g.

Releases

Versions follow the semantic versioning spec. Use npm version <major | minor | patch> to bump the version, then push. Ensure you have set follow tags option to true with git config --global push.followTags true. GitHub actions will then pick it up and handle the actual publishing to the NPM registry.