Text::AsciiTeX - Convert (La)TeX formulas to ASCII art
use Text::AsciiArt; #equivalent examples my @text_array = render('\frac{1}{e}'); print "$_\n" for @text_array; my $text_array = render('\frac{1}{e}'); print $text_array; print scalar render('\frac{1}{e}'); render('\frac{1}{e}');
This module provides a mechanism to render (La)TeX formulae to ASCII art. It is based solely on AsciiTeX written by Bart Pieters (See "UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGIES").
This module exports the render function.
render
render( $latex [, $columns] )
The function render accepts a string containing a formula in (La)TeX formatting. Optionally, an integer may be given to specify the number of columns for the output or zero for no-breaking. The default number of columns is 80.
Since version 0.03 the return value is context aware.
In list context, render returns a list whose elements are strings, one for each row of the art. Printing each line, terminated by a newline will probably do what you expect.
In scalar context, render will return a string of the concatenated lines, each ended with a newline.
In void context, render will print the scalar context return directly to the selected file handle (usually STDOUT).
select
STDOUT
For use examples see "SYNOPSIS". For a list of allowed syntax and syntax examples read Text::AsciiTeX::Syntax.
This module is basically just a C-level Perl wrapper of AsciiTeX written by Bart Pieters. That project is hosted at http://asciitex.sourceforge.net/. AsciiTeX in turn was a fork of eqascii which was written by Przemek Borys. This module owes a debt of thanks to both authors.
http://github.com/jberger/Text::AsciiTeX
Joel Berger, <joel.a.berger@gmail.com>
Copyright (C) 2012 by Joel Berger
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
To install Text::AsciiTeX, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Text::AsciiTeX
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Text::AsciiTeX
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.