I have a document with a lot of equations that use commands to maintain consistency. For example, it looks like this
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\newcommand{\numberOfDocuments}{\mathcal{N}}
\newcommand{\someSimpleCommand}{\mathcal{F}}
\newcommand{\someComplexCommand}[1]{\sum_{i = #1}^{#1+5} i}
\begin{document}
This is $\numberOfDocuments = 1$ document with equations
\begin{align}
\someSimpleCommand \approx \someComplexCommand{\numberOfDocuments}
\end{align}
\end{document}
In order to use the resulting equations for example at MathOverflow or other places where I can not provide a complex document, I want to extract the plain TeX equations like
\mathcal{N} = 1
\mathcal{F} \approx \sum_{i = \mathcal{N}}^{\mathcal{N}+5} i
Is there any way to do this? Is there maybe an intermediate step in the LaTeX compilation process that I could access? It does not really matter if I get the whole document with the expanded equations or only the equations itself.