Do exists a tool from unicode to LaTeX?

Asked Jan 11 '21 at 19:44

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I am currently looking for a tool that converts a Unicode code to TeX/LaTeX. Actually I have not found anything.

There are many tools on the web that transform a symbol from LaTeX to Unicode but not vice versa.

In case there is no such tool, I have thought this: is it possible to generate a LaTeX code that transforms a unicode symbol into LaTeX commands? For example I have alfa in unicode and I would to obtain \alpha.

I can only use pdfLaTeX to compile my .tex file.

edited Dec 03 '23 at 20:39

asked Jan 11 '21 at 19:44

Sebastiano

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it isn't clear what you mean, if you have a unicode string such as α → β you can just use it as it is in luatex or xetex and unicode-math no conversion is needed – David Carlisle Jan 11 '21 at 19:55
@DavidCarlisle I not like LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX. My preferite it is pdfLaTeX :-). – Sebastiano Jan 11 '21 at 19:58
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well you can use \DeclareUnicodeCharacter to make it work in pdftex too if you wish. – David Carlisle Jan 11 '21 at 20:02
@DavidCarlisle I have edited now and I am agree totally with you. For the tags I have thought that expl3 may be useful to create a transformation code. And the latextools tag referred to something specific from unicode to latex. Now I remove them. – Sebastiano Jan 11 '21 at 20:07
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If you hover over the tag it tells you what they are for. latextools is a plugin for the sublime text editor which I guess you are not using. – David Carlisle Jan 11 '21 at 20:10
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There is a pandoc filter that can convert unicode math to latex symbols: pandoc-unicode-math. You can extend its symbol list to include all the characters you need – DG' Jan 11 '21 at 20:24
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pylatexenc seems to be able to do the conversion as well – DG' Jan 11 '21 at 20:26
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...and LaTeX::Recode – DG' Jan 11 '21 at 20:29
@DG' Hi, and thank you for your link. For me it is hard to understand to install or to understand the pandoc-unicode-math :-(....I don't understand how to use them if I don't see practical examples :-( – Sebastiano Jan 11 '21 at 20:29
@DG' For me it's like understanding the Arabic language :-) – Sebastiano Jan 11 '21 at 20:30
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...and tex-conversions.py – DG' Jan 11 '21 at 20:31
@DG' I am not able, sorry :-( – Sebastiano Jan 11 '21 at 20:32
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...and recode – DG' Jan 11 '21 at 20:35
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Your problem is: "I can only use pdfLaTeX to compile my .tex file." It means that you want to use 30 years old software. If you can use up-to-date TeX engines then you needn't convert from Unicode to TeX because modern TeX understands Unicode. – wipet Dec 03 '23 at 20:52
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It's not clear what the issue actually is, there has been a lot of answers in the comments. Pylatexenc has installation instruction in https://pypi.org/project/pylatexenc/ , and example how to use it in https://pylatexenc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ . See also for example https://stackoverflow.com/a/23833666/5267751 – user202729 Dec 04 '23 at 04:18
@user202729 How this tool work? – Sebastiano Dec 04 '23 at 08:48
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example how to use it (and what does it do) is in https://pylatexenc.readthedocs.io/en/latest . – user202729 Dec 04 '23 at 15:07

Do exists a tool from unicode to LaTeX?

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