Basic Usage
The SnuggleEngine
To use SnuggleTeX, you first need to create a SnuggleEngine:
SnuggleEngine engine = new SnuggleEngine();
Once configured. an instance of a SnuggleEngine is thread-safe and can be used to perform as many conversions as you like. It houses a number of defaults, options, command and environment definitions that can be set if you want to perform a number of very similar conversion processes. See the API Docs for more information.
Despite its heavy-weight name, creating and setting up a SnuggleEngine is not expensive so don’t worry about that!
The SnuggleSession
A SnuggleSession represents a single SnuggleTeX conversion "job", which typically consists of the following steps:
- Parse one or more SnuggleInputs.
- Generate one or more Outputs (either XML/DOM Outputs or Web Pages).
- (Check for any errors in the LaTeX reported by the above processes…)
You create a new SnuggleSession from your SnuggleEngine as follows:
SnuggleSession session = engine.createSession();
This creates a fresh job using the current default settings in your SnuggleEngine. You can then call methods described in Inputs, Error Reporting and Creating XML/DOM Outputs or Creating Web Pages to do whatever it is you want to do.
You can discard a SnuggleSession once it has done everything you need. Note that a SnuggleSession is not thread safe.
See the Examples for various examples of how everything comes together.