NAME

LaTeX::ToUnicode - Convert LaTeX commands to Unicode

VERSION

version 0.11

SYNOPSIS

  use LaTeX::ToUnicode qw( convert );

  convert( '{\"a}'           ) eq 'ä';  # true
  convert( '"a', german => 1 ) eq 'ä';  # true, `german' package syntax
  convert( '"a',             ) eq '"a';  # not enabled by default
  
  # more generally:
  my $latexstr;
  my $unistr = convert($latexstr);

DESCRIPTION

This module provides a method to convert LaTeX-style markups for accents etc. into their Unicode equivalents. It translates commands for special characters or accents into their Unicode equivalents and removes formatting commands. It is not at all bulletproof or complete.

This module converts values from BibTeX files into plain text. If your use case is different, YMMV.

In contrast to TeX::Encode, this module does not create HTML of any kind, including for HTML/XML metacharacters such as <, >, "&", which can appear literally in the output. Entities are other handling for these has to happen at another level, if need be.

FUNCTIONS

convert( $latex_string, %options )

Convert the text in $string that contains LaTeX into a plain(er) Unicode string. All escape sequences for accented and special characters (e.g., \i, \"a, ...) are converted. Basic formatting commands (e.g. {\it ...}) are removed.

%options allows you to enable additional translations. These keys are recognized:

"german": If this option is set, the commands introduced by the package `german' (e.g. ""a" eq "ä", note the missing backslash) are also handled.

AUTHOR

Gerhard Gossen <gerhard.gossen@googlemail.com> and Boris Veytsman <boris@varphi.com> <https://github.com/borisveytsman/bibtexperllibs>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.