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NAME

6       TeX::Encode::BibTeX - Encode/decode Perl utf-8 strings into BibTeX
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SYNOPSIS

9         use TeX::Encode;
10         use Encode;
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12         $tex = encode('bibtex', "This will encode an e-acute (".chr(0xe9).") as \'e");
13         $str = decode('bibtex', $tex); # Will decode the \'e too!
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DESCRIPTION

16       This module provides encoding to LaTeX escapes from utf8 using mapping
17       tables. This covers only a subset of the Unicode character table (undef
18       warnings will occur for non-mapped chars). This module is intentionally
19       vague about what it will handle, see Caveats below.
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21       Mileage will vary when decoding (converting TeX to utf8), as TeX is in
22       essence a programming language, and this module does not implement TeX.
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24       I use this module to encode author names in BibTeX and to do a rough
25       job at presenting LaTeX abstracts in HTML. Using decode rather than
26       seeing $\sqrt{\Omega^2\zeta_n}$ you get something that looks like the
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29       The next logical step for this module is to integrate some level of TeX
30       grammar to improve the decoding, in particular to handle fractions and
31       font changes (which should probably be dropped).
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METHODS

34       TeX::Encode::BibTeX::encode STRING [, CHECK]
35           Encodes a utf8 string into TeX. CHECK isn't implemented.
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37       TeX::Encode::BibTeX::encode_url STRING
38           Make a URL safe for inclusion in BibTeX.
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40       TeX::Encode::BibTeX::decode STRING [, CHECK]
41           Decodes a TeX string into utf8. CHECK isn't implemented.
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43       TeX::Encode::perlio_ok
44           Returns 0. PerlIO isn't implemented.
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CAVEATS

47       Proper Encode checking is not implemented.
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49       LaTeX comments (% ...) are ignored because chopping a lot of text may
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52   encode()
53       Converts non-ASCII Unicode characters to their equivalent TeX symbols
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57       Attempts to convert TeX symbols (e.g. \ae) to Unicode characters. As an
58       experimental feature this also handles Math-mode TeX by inserting HTML
59       into the resulting string (so you end up with an HTML approximation of
60       the maths - NOT MathML).
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SEE ALSO

63       Encode::Encoding, Pod::LaTeX, Encode
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AUTHOR

66       Timothy D Brody, <tdb01r@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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69       Copyright (C) 2005-2007 by Timothy D Brody
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71       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
72       under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.7 or, at
73       your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.
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