Python LaTeX codec?

[David Eppstein]

Does anyone have an implemented Python codec for converting between
unicode and LaTeX markup? E.g. I'd like 'ï' to be converted to '{\"\i}'
and vice versa. Preferably including at least the Latin Extended-A
characters as well as the basic Latin-1 Supplement.

If not, anyone with experience writing Python codecs have any advice on
how to do this?

--
David Eppstein http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science

[Karl M Syring]

David Eppstein wrote on Tue, 14 Oct 2003 08:27:09 -0700:

Does anyone have an implemented Python codec for converting between
unicode and LaTeX markup? E.g. I'd like 'ï' to be converted to '{\"\i}'
and vice versa. Preferably including at least the Latin Extended-A
characters as well as the basic Latin-1 Supplement.

If not, anyone with experience writing Python codecs have any advice on
how to do this?

There is Recodec
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard/recodec/
which may fit the bill.

Karl M. Syring

[William Park]

In <comp.text.tex> David Eppstein <ep******@ics.uci.edu> wrote:

Does anyone have an implemented Python codec for converting between
unicode and LaTeX markup? E.g. I'd like '?' to be converted to '{\"\i}'
and vice versa. Preferably including at least the Latin Extended-A
characters as well as the basic Latin-1 Supplement.

If not, anyone with experience writing Python codecs have any advice on
how to do this?

For heaven's sake,
man tr
man sed
man awk
man bash

--
William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <op**********@yahoo.ca>
Linux solution for data management and processing.

[netnews.upenn.edu]

William Park wrote:

In <comp.text.tex> David Eppstein <ep******@ics.uci.edu> wrote:

Does anyone have an implemented Python codec for converting between
unicode and LaTeX markup? E.g. I'd like '?' to be converted to '{\"\i}'
and vice versa. Preferably including at least the Latin Extended-A
characters as well as the basic Latin-1 Supplement.

If not, anyone with experience writing Python codecs have any advice on
how to do this?

For heaven's sake,
man tr
man sed
man awk
man bash

Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.

C:\>man tr
'man' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\>man sed
'man' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\>man awk
'man' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\>man bash
'man' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

.....and for good measure...

C:\>help sed
This command is not supported by the help utility. Try "sed /?".

....ducking and running.....

Yes, I have cygwin on my windows boxes and I've got Linux/BSD boxen,
etc. but the sort of kneejerk reaction to use the standard unix command
line tools isn't very helpful. What if the OP wanted to distribute his
program to users whom were unlikely to have access to such a tool chain?

Pointing out that there are some pre-existing tools can be useful, but
the "for heaven's sake" approach doesn't really help to address the
posters question about a _Python_ codec.... (one of the other responses
mentioning "recodec" does...)

--Paul

[David Eppstein]

In article <bm***********@netnews.upenn.edu>,
"netnews.upenn.edu" <p.*******@snet.net> wrote:

William Park wrote:

In <comp.text.tex> David Eppstein <ep******@ics.uci.edu> wrote:

Does anyone have an implemented Python codec for converting between
unicode and LaTeX markup? E.g. I'd like '?' to be converted to '{\"\i}'
and vice versa. Preferably including at least the Latin Extended-A
characters as well as the basic Latin-1 Supplement.

If not, anyone with experience writing Python codecs have any advice on
how to do this?

For heaven's sake,
man tr
man sed
man awk
man bash

Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.

I am using a Mac, so Windows not having these isn't a problem.

But, Park's response doesn't really address my question at all.
For one thing, there was a reason I asked for this as Python code, which
is that I want to use this as a subroutine of a larger application, and
don't want the expense of firing up a separate program every time I want
to use this subroutine. More importantly, the difficult part is not so
much actually performing the conversion (whether by one of these
programs or more cleanly as a pure Python codec), but in coming up with
the tables of patterns to be converted.

--
David Eppstein http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
Univ. of California, Irvine, School of Information & Computer Science

[netnews.upenn.edu]

David Eppstein wrote:

Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.

I am using a Mac, so Windows not having these isn't a problem.

But, Park's response doesn't really address my question at all.
For one thing, there was a reason I asked for this as Python code, which
is that I want to use this as a subroutine of a larger application, and

That was essentially the point of the rest of my post -- the quoted unix
tools weren't universal and that you had asked for Python code. I used
Windows as an example because that was the box I was sitting at when I
read the post.

Actually, I think many (all?) of those tools may be available by default
if you're using OS X, but I'm too lazy to fire up my powerbook at the
moment...

--Paul