diff --git a/src/format.jl b/src/format.jl
index c958051..02aeefb 100644
--- a/src/format.jl
+++ b/src/format.jl
@@ -36,13 +36,17 @@ function render_doc(formatted, doc::WeaveDoc, format)
   return formatted
 end
 
-function render_doc(formatted, doc::WeaveDoc, format::JMarkdown2HTML)
+function stylesheet(m::MIME)
   buf = PipeBuffer()
-  Highlights.stylesheet(buf, MIME("text/css"))
+  Highlights.stylesheet(buf, m)
   flush(buf)
-  css = readstring(buf)
+  style = readstring(buf)
   close(buf)
+  return style
+end
 
+function render_doc(formatted, doc::WeaveDoc, format::JMarkdown2HTML)
+  css = stylesheet(MIME("text/html"))
   title = get_title(doc)
   path, wsource = splitdir(abspath(doc.source))
   wversion = string(Pkg.installed("Weave"))
@@ -57,6 +61,20 @@ function render_doc(formatted, doc::WeaveDoc, format::JMarkdown2HTML)
                           title = title)
 end
 
+function render_doc(formatted, doc::WeaveDoc, format::JMarkdown2tex)
+  highlight = stylesheet(MIME("text/latex"))
+  title = get_title(doc)
+  path, wsource = splitdir(abspath(doc.source))
+  wversion = string(Pkg.installed("Weave"))
+  wtime =  string(Date(now()))
+  template = Mustache.template_from_file(joinpath(dirname(@__FILE__), "../templates/julia_tex.txt"))
+
+  return Mustache.render(template, body = formatted,
+    highlight = highlight,
+    title = title)
+end
+
+
 function get_title(doc::WeaveDoc)
   if isa(doc.chunks[1], CodeChunk)
     return doc.source
@@ -84,6 +102,20 @@ function format_chunk(chunk::DocChunk, formatdict, docformat::JMarkdown2HTML)
     return string(Documenter.Writers.HTMLWriter.mdconvert(m))
 end
 
+function Base.Markdown.latex(io::IO, md::Base.Markdown.Paragraph)
+    println(io)
+    for md in md.content
+        Base.Markdown.latexinline(io, md)
+    end
+    println(io)
+end
+
+
+function format_chunk(chunk::DocChunk, formatdict, docformat::JMarkdown2tex)
+    m = Base.Markdown.parse(chunk.content)
+    #TODO add space between paragraphs
+    return Base.Markdown.latex(m)
+end
 
 function format_chunk(chunk::CodeChunk, formatdict, docformat)
     #Fill undefined options with format specific defaults
@@ -169,6 +201,15 @@ function format_code(result::AbstractString, docformat)
   return result
 end
 
+function format_code(result::AbstractString, docformat::JMarkdown2tex)
+  buf = PipeBuffer()
+  Highlights.highlight(buf, MIME("text/latex"), strip(result), Highlights.Lexers.JuliaLexer)
+  flush(buf)
+  highlighted = readstring(buf)
+  close(buf)
+  return highlighted
+end
+
 function format_code(result::AbstractString, docformat::JMarkdown2HTML)
   buf = PipeBuffer()
   Highlights.highlight(buf, MIME("text/html"), strip(result), Highlights.Lexers.JuliaLexer)
diff --git a/src/formatters.jl b/src/formatters.jl
index 93b4ce4..139eb64 100644
--- a/src/formatters.jl
+++ b/src/formatters.jl
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ type JMarkdown2HTML
  formatdict::Dict{Symbol,Any}
 end
 
-const md2html = JMarkdown2HTML("Julia markdown", Dict{Symbol,Any}(
+const md2html = JMarkdown2HTML("Julia markdown to html", Dict{Symbol,Any}(
         :codestart => "\n",
         :codeend=> "\n",
         :outputstart=> "<pre class=\"hljl\">",
@@ -114,6 +114,24 @@ const md2html = JMarkdown2HTML("Julia markdown", Dict{Symbol,Any}(
         :extension=> "html",
         :doctype=> "md2html"))
 
+#Julia markdown
+type JMarkdown2tex
+ description::AbstractString
+ formatdict::Dict{Symbol,Any}
+end
+
+const md2tex = JMarkdown2tex("Julia markdown to latex", Dict{Symbol,Any}(
+        :codestart => "",
+        :codeend=> "",
+        :outputstart=> "\\begin{lstlisting}",
+        :outputend=> "\\end{lstlisting}\n",
+        :fig_ext=> ".pdf",
+        :extension=> "tex",
+        :mimetypes => ["application/pdf", "image/png", "image/jpg",
+                       "text/latex", "text/plain"],
+        :doctype=> "md2tex"))
+
+
 type MultiMarkdown
   description::AbstractString
   formatdict::Dict{Symbol,Any}
@@ -419,5 +437,6 @@ const formats = Dict{AbstractString, Any}("tex" => tex,
                                           "multimarkdown" => multimarkdown,
                                           "rst" => rst,
                                           "asciidoc" => adoc,
-                                          "md2html" => md2html
+                                          "md2html" => md2html,
+                                          "md2tex" => md2tex
                                           )
diff --git a/templates/julia_tex.txt b/templates/julia_tex.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ead6602
--- /dev/null
+++ b/templates/julia_tex.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+\documentclass{article}[12pt]
+\usepackage[a4paper,text={16.5cm,25.2cm},centering]{geometry}
+
+\title{ {{{ :title }}} }
+
+{{{ :highlight }}}
+
+\begin{document}
+\maketitle
+
+{{{ :body }}}
+
+\end{document}