Re: latex formulas into lout

"Daniel Ajoy" <[email protected]> Tue, 02 Jul 2019 09:20:52 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.type-setting.lout
Message-ID <op.z4a0s2az0gup8g@sarvasla>
Thanks for the tips.


On Tue, 02 Jul 2019 06:31:56 -0500, David Duffy <[email protected]> wrote:

> That particular task would take hour or so in vim rewriting as
> %s/lim _/{lim} above/
> %s/\\to/-->/
> %s/\\infty/infinity/g
> etc
>
> one annoyance is \text{} eg first line
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> {\displaystyle {\text{If }}\lim _{x\to c}f(x)=L_{1}{\text{ and }}\lim _{x\to c}g(x)=L_{2}{\text{ then:}}}
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> becomes
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> If @Math {{{lim} above {x --> c}} f(x)=L sub {1}} and @Math {{{lim} above {x --> c}} g(x)=L sub {2}} then:
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> Another will be {\frac {A} {B}} to "{A} over {B}"
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> Enjoy ;)
> ________________________________________
> From: Lout-users [[email protected]] on behalf of Daniel Ajoy [[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, 2 July 2019 3:40 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: latex formulas into lout
>
> I was thinking of all of these:
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_limits
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>
>
> On Mon, 01 Jul 2019 23:12:03 -0500, David Duffy <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Daniel asked:
>>
>>> Is there a way to convert latex formulas into Lout?
>>
>> How many equations, with what complexity of layout? Someone may have written a script that will partly do this - I don't think it would be that hard - but I suspect you would have to finish it by hand. I don't have such a program (the equations I have converted were done by hand from Word Perfect, where the language is v. similar to eqn/troff), but someone else may have.
>>
>> 2c, David Duffy.
>