Automatic conversion from tex to unicode

Question

I am increasingly working with XeLaTeX and stated using unicode characters instead of Latex command. For instance, I use → instead of \to in my documents.

Now, I'd like my IDE to automatically convert \to to →, a bit in the sense of this chrome plug-in.

I've searched in the LaTeX Editors/IDEs question, but could not find which IDE support this feature, if any.

Is there an IDE or a program that can perform this conversion "on the fly" for me?

ps: For the sake of clarity: I know I can look up the symbols here or there, and am aware of some of the challenges, pros and cons of using unicode directly. I also know that on-line services for this translation exist, and that scripts to go the other way around have been discussed here. What I'm looking for is to automate this task in my IDE, not to question it.

Everything old is new again! TeX, or plain TeX, takes the \to character in position {hex}19, as given on the mythological extended keyboard. See The TeXbook, starting at the bottom of page 368. In plain TeX, $a ^^19 b$ still works as $a \to b$ . It does not in LaTeX, but I think it might have a very long time ago. — Donald Arseneau, Apr 22 '20 at 03:39
Does this answer your question? How to convert characters to LaTeX code? — user202729, Dec 04 '23 at 03:45
@user202729 Despite that some of the converts like recode can be used also to convert from LaTeX to UTF8, the questions and most answers about converting to LaTeX code and from LaTeX code are IMHO different. — cabohah, Dec 04 '23 at 07:50
Sorry I misread. The correct duplicate should be unicode - Convert LaTex accented characters to UTF8 equivalent with Python - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange (but provided this one actually have more votes than the other one maybe we duplicate vote it backwards, although this one is newer so it should be fine either direction I think) — user202729, Dec 04 '23 at 15:05

jlewk · Answer 1 · 2020-04-21T20:22:59.717

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This vim plugin https://github.com/joom/latex-unicoder.vim provides a key binding C-l to transform latex commands to their utf-8 equivalent.

edited Apr 21 '20 at 20:22

answered Apr 21 '20 at 18:56

jlewk

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 23 '20 at 19:41

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This emacs pluging https://gist.github.com/kbauer/e8fee6514d124d5961f51fd7ba571bfd is an

Autohotkey-script for converting LaTeX-like input to unicode characters. "Ctrl+Alt+Shift+U" toggles it on and off.

answered Apr 23 '20 at 19:41

Clément

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Automatic conversion from tex to unicode

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