import sys sys.path.insert(0, "..") from pyx import * text.set(mode="latex", docclass="scrartcl", docopt="11pt", fontmaps="tipa.map") text.preamble(r"\usepackage{tipa}") c = canvas.canvas() c.text(0, 0, r"\textipa{[%s]}" % sys.argv[1]) c.writePDFfile("tipa%s.pdf" % sys.argv[2], bboxenlarge=0)