Overview

The latex app comforms to the davinci dynamic text specification. That means that you can enter expressions such as



and have it rendered as 4.

When you enter a dynamic text expression into the latex app, it will display as you have entered it. If you wish to see how the text would translate when rendered into a pdf document, you can click the translate button, which will evaluate all dynamic text expressions and replace them with their values.

Exporting

To export the latex document as an ascii text file, which can then be imported into other latex editor, click the export button. You will prompted by a dialog window with two options.

• Render - the render checkbox indicates that you want any embedded dynamic text to be evaluated first before exporting the document.
• Wrap - the wrap select box lets you wrap the latex in a latex document declaration, such as an article. This is useful latex documents that are intended to be linked as a section into other latex documents. When this is the case, the section will not be wrapped in a document declaration.
  
  However, there are times where you may want to export the section as a document in its own right. (sometimes because you just want to generated a pdf and view what the section looks like) In this case, you can indicate to the export to put document tags around the text before exporting it.

After exporting a latex document, it can be opened in any number of other latex tools, which can then be used to generate a pdf file. (see for example Tex Studio)