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LaTeX

Scimon ships with a built-in LaTeX engine that turns .tex documents into PDF files — no TeX distribution (TeX Live, MiKTeX, etc.) required. It parses LaTeX into an internal AST, renders it to HTML, typesets the math with MathJax, and prints the result to PDF.

scimon compile paper.tex

Supported features

The engine focuses on document-oriented LaTeX. The most common commands and environments are supported out of the box; the math itself is handled by MathJax, so anything MathJax understands works inside math mode.

Document structure

  • \documentclass[...]{...} — class options such as twocolumn are honored.
  • Sectioning: \part, \chapter, \section, \subsection, \subsubsection, \paragraph (with their starred variants).
  • \title, \author, \date, \maketitle.
  • \begin{abstract} ... \end{abstract}.
  • \tableofcontents (built from the document's sections).
  • \addcontentsline.

Text formatting

  • \textbf, \textit, \emph, \underline, \texttt, \textsc, \sout.
  • Font sizing (\tiny … \Huge) and font declarations.
  • Colors: \definecolor, \color, \textcolor, \colorlet.
  • Spacing & breaks: \vspace, \hspace, \bigskip, \\, \newpage, \noindent, \phantom, \hphantom, \vphantom, \parbox, \raisebox, \setlength, \linespread.
  • \rule / horizontal rules.

Lists

  • \begin{itemize}, \begin{enumerate} (including [label=...]), \begin{description}.

Math

  • Inline math $...$ / \(...\) and display math $$...$$ / \[...\].
  • \begin{equation}, \begin{align} (and starred forms).
  • \begin{cases}, \begin{matrix}, \begin{pmatrix}, \begin{bmatrix}, \begin{array}.
  • \DeclareMathOperator.

Figures, tables and images

  • \includegraphics{...} (remote images are downloaded and embedded).
  • \begin{figure} / \begin{table} floats (with starred, full-width variants).
  • \begin{tabular} / \begin{tabular*}.
  • \caption / \caption*.

Cross-references

  • \label, \ref, \pageref, \nameref.
  • \hyperref, \hypertarget, \hyperlink, \phantomsection.

Page references (\pageref) are resolved after layout, so they point at the real printed page in the generated PDF.

Footnotes

  • \footnote, \footnotemark, \footnotetext.

Theorem-like environments

Built-in environments — theorem, lemma, proof, definition, corollary, proposition, remark, example, claim — are styled and counted automatically. You can also declare your own:

\newtheorem{conjecture}{Conjecture}

Bibliography & citations

  • \addbibresource{...} and \bibliographystyle{...}.
  • \cite, \nocite with author/year/textual styles.
  • The manual \begin{thebibliography} ... \end{thebibliography} environment.

Acronyms & glossaries

Compatible with the acronym, acro and glossaries command families:

  • Definitions: \newacronym, \DeclareAcronym, \acrodef.
  • Use: \ac, \acs, \acl, \acf (first use expands, later uses abbreviate).
  • \acresetall / \glsresetall to reset usage.
  • \printacronyms / \printglossary to print the list.

Layout

  • \twocolumn / \onecolumn and \documentclass[twocolumn].
  • \begin{multicols}{n}[preface] (and multicols* for unbalanced columns).
  • Running heads/feet (fancyhdr): \chead, \cfoot, \lhead, \rfoot, … and \thepage.
  • \url, \href.
  • Verbatim / listing code blocks rendered with syntax highlighting.
  • Mermaid diagrams.

Diagrams & plots

  • \begin{tikzpicture} — TikZ diagrams rendered to inline SVG.
  • \begin{axis} ... \end{axis} (pgfplots) — plots rendered to inline SVG.

Bundled packages

These packages are always available — you don't need \usepackage, though leaving it in does no harm:

Package Commands / environments
siunitx \SI, \qty, \si, \unit, \num, \ang
mhchem \ce, \pu
physics \dv, \pdv, \fdv, \bra, \ket, \braket, \ip, \dyad, \ev, \mel, \comm, \acomm, \pb, and more
tcolorbox \begin{tcolorbox} ... \end{tcolorbox}

Example

\documentclass{article}

\title{A Short Note}
\author{Ada Lovelace}
\date{\today}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

\begin{abstract}
A minimal example compiled directly by Scimon.
\end{abstract}

\section{Introduction}
The mass--energy relation is \( E = mc^2 \).

\begin{equation}
    \int_0^\infty e^{-x^2}\,dx = \frac{\sqrt{\pi}}{2}
\end{equation}

\begin{theorem}
Every bounded monotonic sequence converges.
\end{theorem}

Water is written \ce{H2O}, and a length is \SI{3}{\meter}.
\end{document}

scimon compile note.tex