LaTeX + Nix setup for "Finding Success and Failure in Haskell"

default.nix

{
    pkgs =
        import (import ./nixpkgs.nix) {};

    texlive =
        import ./texlive.nix { inherit (pkgs) texlive; };

    fontsForLatex =
        [
            { name = "google-fonts";
              path = "${pkgs.google-fonts}/share/fonts/truetype"; }
            { name = "fira-mono";
              path = "${pkgs.fira-mono}/share/fonts/opentype"; }
        ];

    latexInputs =
        pkgs.linkFarm "latexInputs"
            ([
                { name = "book.tex"; path = findingSuccessTex; }
                { name = "preamble.tex"; path = "${./templates/preamble.tex}"; }
                { name = "code.tex"; path = "${./templates/code.tex}"; }
                { name = "cover.pdf"; path = coverPdf; }
                { name = "cover-inside.pdf"; path = coverInsidePdf; }
                { name = "figures"; path = texFigures; }
            ] ++ fontsForLatex);

    findingSuccessPdf =
        pkgs.runCommand "finding-success.pdf"
            {
                buildInputs = [ texlive ];
                inherit latexInputs;
            }
            ''
                ln -s "$latexInputs"/* .

                xelatex book.tex
                xelatex book.tex

                mv book.pdf $out
            '';

    # ...
}

nixpkgs.nix

(import <nixpkgs> { }).fetchFromGitHub {
  owner = "NixOS";
  repo = "nixpkgs";

  # NixOS unstable, 2019 Feb 14
  rev = "36f316007494c388df1fec434c1e658542e3c3cc";
  sha256 = "1w1dg9ankgi59r2mh0jilccz5c4gv30a6q1k6kv2sn8vfjazwp9k";

}

texlive.nix

{ texlive }:

texlive.combine {

    inherit (texlive)

        # The program we use to turn .tex into .pdf files
        xetex

        # An aggegrate base package with bunch of tex packages
        scheme-medium

        # For quieting latex's build output
        silence

        # For building graphics with tikz
        pgf

        # Provides the `extdash` package which gives \Hyphdash
        ncctools

        # Provides the `standalone` document class, which we use to render images
        standalone

        # The Merriweather font
        merriweather

        # Used to style the code blocks that pandoc generates
        framed

        # Provides the `adjustbox` environment for minor positional adjustments
        adjustbox

        # Dependency of adjustbox
        collectbox

        ;

}