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Converts simple LaTeX to an unicode approximation

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Convert simple LaTeX into an unicode approximation and paste it anywhere.

This package provides a more complete LaTeX to Unicode converter than unicodeit. unicodeitplus uses a better parser (generated from EBNF with the fantastic Lark library) than unicodeit, which handles some code on which unicodeit fails, and allows one to parse a mix of text and math code, like $p_T$ / GeV $c^{-1}$.

LaTeX to Unicode: How does this even work?

Unicode contains many subscript and superscript characters. It also font variations of characters of both latin and greek characters, including italic, boldface, bold italic, and more. It contains a lot of special mathematical characters and diacritical marks, which we use to approximate LaTeX renderings using just unicode characters.

Like unicodeit, unicodeitplus is largely based on unimathsymbols.txt from Günter Milde, which is maps LaTeX macros to Unicode symbols.

Caveats

  • Only a subset of all LaTeX code can be converted to Unicode. Some Unicode characters simply don’t exist. For example, subscript characters exist only for a subset of all lowercase latin characters, and there are no subscript characters for uppercase latin characters.

  • Your font needs to contain glyphs for the Unicode characters, otherwise you will typically see a little box with the unicode character index.

  • The visually best results seem to be obtained with monospace fonts.

  • Some conversions are deliberate approximations, for example, $p_T$ is rendered as 𝑝ₜ.

Examples

LaTeX

Unicode

\alpha

𝛼

\beta

𝛽

\gamma

𝛾

\Gamma

𝛤

\infty

e^+

𝑒⁺

\mu^-

𝜇⁻

\exists

\in

\int

\sum

\partial

\slash{\partial}

∂̸

\longrightarrow

\to

p\bar{p}

𝑝𝑝̄

\mathrm{t}\bar{\mathrm{t}}

tt̄

\mathcal{H}

\mathbb{R}

\underline{x}

𝑥̲

\phone

\checkmark

\dot{x}

𝑥̇

\ddot{x}

𝑥̈

\vec{x}

𝑥⃗

A^6

𝐴⁶

m_0

𝑚₀

\Im

\Re

\hbar

\perp

\parallel

\therefore

\because

\subset

\supset

p_T / \mathrm{GeV} c^{-1}

𝑝ₜ/GeV𝑐⁻¹

K^0_S

𝐾⁰ₛ

D^{\ast\ast} \to hhee

𝐷**→ℎℎ𝑒𝑒

A \mathbf{x} \simeq \mathbf{b}

𝐴𝐱≃𝐛

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