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│ ┃ Last rendering ✕ › fix the failing auth test and add an audit log call │ ┃ No rendering yet. One appears here when │ ┃ Claude runs ⏺ Read(src/auth.ts) │ ┃ `lxx png` or reads a .png. ⎿ Read 6 lines │ ⏺ Update(src/auth.ts) │ ⎿ Added 2 lines, removed 1 line │ ⏺ Bash(bun test) │ ⎿ 3 pass, 1 fail │ │ ● Done. refresh now rejects expired claims and logs an audit event. │ │ ✻ Worked for 42s · done 4:20 PM │ │ › /lxx-render │ ⎿ lxx-render: Last rendering pane opened. │ │ ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── › ? for shortcuts

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No rendering yet. One appears here when Claude runs `lxx png` or reads a .png.

README

linguexx

A standalone LaTeX package for linguistic examples, with a linguex-compatible input syntax and first-class support for accessible (tagged) PDF output.

linguexx reimplements the familiar dot-syntax of linguex (\ex., \a., \b., \z., \exg., \gll, \glt, \Next, \Last, …) on a fresh expl3 engine, with no dependency on linguex or cgloss4e. It runs on pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX. A [legacy] option reproduces linguex's exact geometry for drop-in replacement; the default mode is a slightly tighter variant.

Two other input syntaxes are available as options and drive the same engine, so they share one counter, one label system and all layout parameters with the dot syntax: [gb4e] for the exe / xlist environments, and [langsci] for the \ea … \z front-end of langsci-gb4e. Loaded alongside [lazy], either lets a document move over one example at a time. [langsci] provides what langsci-gb4e does — the criterion is what works there, not what its two documents describe — including \eal … \zl, the sub-list numbering variants, the box and font commands and its four package options. It also takes that package's reference convention: under [langsci] a plain \ref prints 1 rather than (1), as langsci-gb4e does, and \ExParenRefs asks for the other one. The two names that have never worked upstream (xlistabr, qlist) are refused by name, with an error saying what to write instead.

Accessibility

When the document enables the LaTeX tagging code, linguexx writes its examples into the PDF structure tree as genuine, accessible objects:

examples are ordered lists — L → LI → Lbl → LBody, sub-levels nested, with valid per-level /ListNumbering (decimal / lower-alpha / lower-roman);
examples inside footnotes keep a valid tree;
grammaticality marks carry a spoken form (/Alt), so a screen reader says "ungrammatical" rather than "asterisk" — see \DeclareJudgment[spoken=…];
interlinear glosses are grouped column by column, read word-bundle by word-bundle in the right order (not as loose text, and not as a table, which screen readers read in the wrong order);
a gloss tier's language can be recorded (\GlossTierLang{1}{de} → /Lang);
a free translation set beside the gloss rather than under it (\GlossTransSide) keeps its place in the reading order, grid first;
structural labels set beside the examples (\exannot{[CP]}) carry a spoken form too (\SetAnnotSpoken → /Alt), so a reader hears "complementizer phrase" while the page still shows [CP] (and \ExAnnotFit puts that column where the examples themselves say it belongs, one column per example);
movement arrows (\mvto{a}{What} … \mvfrom{a}{\_\_}) are drawn as artifacts, and the base position is read with a note, "__ (moved)" (\SetMoveSpoken sets the word), so the arrow's meaning reaches a reader who cannot see it;
Leipzig category abbreviations carry their expansion (\lpzg{sg} → /E "singular"), so they are spoken in full while the page still shows SG, and \lpzglist prints the list of those actually used, as a tagged list;
cross-references are links, and reach the tree as Link elements with their annotation under them: \ref as always, and with it \Next, \Last and the rest of the relative references, which link to the example they name without needing a label — and never to one the document does not have.

See doc/TAGGING-NOTES.md for the technical account and doc/PDFUA-CHECKLIST.md for turning a document into a PDF/UA-conformant build.

Usage

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[lazy]{linguexx}   % or [legacy], [gb4e], [langsci], combinations
\begin{document}
\ex. A first example.
\a. a sub-example
\b. *a judged sub-example

\exg. Der Hund bellte.\\ 
the dog barked.\\
\glt `The dog barked.'
\end{document}

For accessible output, add a \DocumentMetadata line before \documentclass; the simplest current form is

\DocumentMetadata{lang=en, tagging=on}

The full manual is linguexx-doc.pdf. Rebuild it with lualatex, not pdflatex: it documents (§9.3) that characters with a diacritic below the letter — Indic and Semitic transliteration, Latvian, Romanian — get a broken text layer under pdflatex, and it contains those characters in the table that explains it. The manual refuses to build with pdflatex for that reason.

Installation

Put linguexx.sty where LaTeX can find it — the working directory for a single project, or TEXMF/tex/latex/linguexx/ (then texhash) for a system-wide install.

Tests

The regression suite checks example geometry (via pdftotext -bbox) and, for the tagged cases, the PDF structure tree, across all three engines:

cd tests
python3 runtests.py              # all cases, all engines
python3 runtests.py -k tagged    # one case
python3 runtests.py -v           # show every assertion
python3 runtests.py --documents  # ... and the manual and the examples too

--documents is the rest of the gate: it builds the manual and the shipped examples and validates examples/ua-demo.pdf with veraPDF, which is what the ua case cannot do for you (it deliberately leaves footnote examples out). It is what CI runs.

It needs the three TeX engines and Python 3, plus poppler-utils (pdftotext for the word boxes every geometric assertion reads, pdfinfo for the structure tree), qpdf (to resolve a named destination to the page it lands on, which no poppler tool reports), show-pdf-tags (the LaTeX team's own tag viewer, the TeX Live package of that name: it resolves /K the way a consumer does, which is what sees an /Alt that wraps nothing) and veraPDF on PATH as verapdf, which needs a JRE — it is the only authoritative oracle for PDF/UA. The suite will not start without poppler or qpdf, and the tagging and PDF/UA cases fail rather than quietly skip when show-pdf-tags or veraPDF is absent. That list is REQUIRED_TOOLS in tests/runtests.py, which is checked against PATH, the suite's own docstring and both CI definitions rather than being kept in step by hand.

Requirements

A reasonably current TeX Live (2023 or later; the tagging support tracks the LaTeX tagging project, which is still evolving — see the notes).
expl3 (part of the LaTeX kernel).
tikz, which draws the brace of \altn and \altg so that the alternatives are ordinary tagged text rather than a formula, and the movement arrows of \mvfrom/\mvto (with its arrows.meta library), and xspace, for the space after \Last and its family. Both are loaded by the package itself.

Licence

LaTeX Project Public License 1.3c or later — see LICENSE.

Author

Gerhard Schaden \& Claude (Fable, Opus, Sonnet).

Source 2 files

hooks/register.tsx 131 lines

1import { atom, read, update } from 'claude-code'
2import type { EngineInterface, Register } from 'claude-code'
3
4import type { Shown } from '../types'
5
6// CLAUDE.md has Claude render every PDF and LOOK at it before calling it
7// right.  This pane shows the person the same picture: the last PNG that
8// `lxx png` wrote, or that Claude read -- reading an image is how Claude
9// looks at it, so that is the page its verdict was about.
10
11const PANE = 'lxx-render'
12const shown = atom({ plugin: 'lxx-render', key: 'shown' } as const, null)
13
14// `lxx png` prints one line per page: "<path>.png  721x1223px  (...)".
15const LXX_PNG = /(?:^|\s)(\/\S+\.png)\s+\d+x\d+px/gm
16
17const B64 = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/'
18
19/** The first bytes of base64 text, decoded by hand: no atob here. */
20function head(base64: string, n: number): number[] {
21  const out: number[] = []
22  let bits = 0
23  let acc = 0
24  for (const ch of base64) {
25    const v = B64.indexOf(ch)
26    if (v < 0) break
27    acc = (acc << 6) | v
28    bits += 6
29    if (bits >= 8) {
30      bits -= 8
31      out.push((acc >> bits) & 0xff)
32      if (out.length === n) break
33    }
34  }
35  return out
36}
37
38/** Width and height from a PNG's IHDR, or undefined if it is not one. */
39export function pngSize(base64: string): { width: number; height: number } | undefined {
40  const b = head(base64, 24)
41  const sig = [0x89, 0x50, 0x4e, 0x47]
42  if (b.length < 24 || sig.some((v, i) => b[i] !== v)) return undefined
43  const u32 = (i: number) => ((b[i]! << 24) | (b[i + 1]! << 16) | (b[i + 2]! << 8) | b[i + 3]!) >>> 0
44  return { width: u32(16), height: u32(20) }
45}
46
47/** The cell box for a picture: as wide as there is room, as tall as the
48 *  aspect ratio wants (a cell is about twice as tall as it is wide), and
49 *  narrower when that would not fit the rows there are. */
50export function fit(px: { width: number; height: number }, room: { columns: number; rows: number }) {
51  let columns = Math.max(1, Math.min(255, room.columns))
52  let rows = Math.round((columns * px.height) / px.width / 2)
53  if (rows > room.rows) {
54    rows = room.rows
55    columns = Math.max(1, Math.round((rows * 2 * px.width) / px.height))
56  }
57  return { columns, rows: Math.max(1, Math.min(255, rows)) }
58}
59
60async function show($: EngineInterface, path: string, via: Shown['via']): Promise<void> {
61  const at = await $.clock.now()
62  await update($, shown, () => ({ path, via, at }))
63  void $.ui.open({ id: PANE, title: 'Last rendering' })
64}
65
66export const register: Register = on => {
67  on('session.start', async ($, e, next) => {
68    await $.command.register({
69      name: 'lxx-render',
70      description: 'Show the last rendering Claude made or looked at',
71    })
72    return next(e)
73  })
74
75  on('command.run', { command: 'lxx-render' }, async $ => {
76    await $.ui.open({ id: PANE, title: 'Last rendering' })
77    return { text: 'Last rendering pane opened.' }
78  })
79
80  on('tool.call', async ($, e, next) => {
81    const ran = await next(e)
82    if (ran.deny !== undefined || ran.isError === true) return ran
83    if (e.tool === 'Read' && /\.png$/i.test(e.file_path)) {
84      await show($, e.file_path, 'Read')
85    } else if (e.tool === 'Bash' && /\blxx\b[^|;&\n]*\spng\b/.test(e.command)) {
86      const paths = [...(ran.text ?? '').matchAll(LXX_PNG)].map(m => m[1]!)
87      const last = paths.at(-1)
88      if (last !== undefined) await show($, last, 'lxx png')
89    }
90    return ran
91  }).catch(($, e, next) => next(e)) // a picture never blocks a tool
92
93  on('ui.render', { component: 'Pane', requestId: PANE }, async ($, e) => {
94    const { Box, Text, Image, Markdown } = $.ui.resolve(e)
95    const now = await read($, shown)
96    if (now === null) {
97      return (
98        <Box flexDirection="column">
99          <Text dimColor>No rendering yet. One appears here when Claude runs</Text>
100          <Text dimColor>`lxx png` or reads a .png.</Text>
101        </Box>
102      )
103    }
104    const name = now.path.split('/').at(-1) ?? now.path
105    const link = <Markdown text={`[${name}](file://${now.path}) — via ${now.via}`} />
106    let bytes: string
107    try {
108      bytes = (await $.fs.read(now.path, { as: 'bytes' })).base64
109    } catch {
110      return (
111        <Box flexDirection="column">
112          <Text dimColor>{now.path} is gone (a later build replaced it?).</Text>
113        </Box>
114      )
115    }
116    const px = pngSize(bytes)
117    const room = {
118      columns: Math.max(10, (e.viewport?.columns ?? 80) - 2),
119      rows: Math.max(4, (e.viewport?.rows ?? 30) - 4),
120    }
121    const box = px ? fit(px, room) : { columns: room.columns, rows: room.rows }
122    return (
123      <Box flexDirection="column">
124        <Image source={{ png: bytes }} columns={box.columns} rows={box.rows}
125               alt={`${name}: this terminal cannot draw images; open the link below`} />
126        {link}
127      </Box>
128    )
129  })
130}
131

types/index.d.ts 15 lines

1export type Shown = {
2  /** Absolute path of the PNG. */
3  path: string
4  /** What put it there: `lxx png` or a Read of the image. */
5  via: 'lxx png' | 'Read'
6  /** When, ms since the epoch. */
7  at: number
8}
9
10declare module 'claude-code' {
11  interface PluginState {
12    'lxx-render': { shown: Shown | null }
13  }
14}
15