1LaTeX::ToUnicode(3)   User Contributed Perl Documentation  LaTeX::ToUnicode(3)
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NAME

6       LaTeX::ToUnicode - Convert LaTeX commands to Unicode
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VERSION

9       version 0.11
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SYNOPSIS

12         use LaTeX::ToUnicode qw( convert );
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14         convert( '{\"a}'           ) eq 'ä';  # true
15         convert( '"a', german => 1 ) eq 'ä';  # true, `german' package syntax
16         convert( '"a',             ) eq '"a';  # not enabled by default
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18         # more generally:
19         my $latexstr;
20         my $unistr = convert($latexstr);
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DESCRIPTION

23       This module provides a method to convert LaTeX-style markups for
24       accents etc.  into their Unicode equivalents. It translates commands
25       for special characters or accents into their Unicode equivalents and
26       removes formatting commands.  It is not at all bulletproof or complete.
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28       This module converts values from BibTeX files into plain text. If your
29       use case is different, YMMV.
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31       In contrast to TeX::Encode, this module does not create HTML of any
32       kind, including for HTML/XML metacharacters such as <, >, "&", which
33       can appear literally in the output. Entities are other handling for
34       these has to happen at another level, if need be.
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FUNCTIONS

37   convert( $latex_string, %options )
38       Convert the text in $string that contains LaTeX into a plain(er)
39       Unicode string. All escape sequences for accented and special
40       characters (e.g., \i, \"a, ...) are converted. Basic formatting
41       commands (e.g. {\it ...}) are removed.
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43       %options allows you to enable additional translations. These keys are
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46       "german"
47           If this option is set, the commands introduced by the package
48           `german' (e.g. ""a" eq "ä", note the missing backslash) are also
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AUTHOR

52       Gerhard Gossen <gerhard.gossen@googlemail.com> and Boris Veytsman
53       <boris@varphi.com> <https://github.com/borisveytsman/bibtexperllibs>
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56       This software is copyright (c) 2010-2020 by Gerhard Gossen and Boris
57       Veytsman
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59       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
60       the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
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64perl v5.36.0                      2022-07-22               LaTeX::ToUnicode(3)
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