On Mon, Jan 5, 2026 at 3:04 PM 'Ralf Hemmecke' via FriCAS - computer algebra system <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 1/4/26 22:06, Waldek Hebisch wrote: > > I have now commited a TeX parser. > > I guess for the restricted TeX macros that appear in docstrings, your > idea might work. > > > Bigger goal for TeX would be to produce HTML/XML version of > > FriCAS Book. > That task is very ambitious, but should also be possible. > I just tried to use pandoc to translate the book to html. That does not > work, because some commands rely on the change of catcode to treat their > argument in a verbatim fashion and pandoc cannot deal with catcode changes. > > If I remember correctly, mostly the commands starting with "\spad..." > are of this type. Maybe, piping all the .tex files through some filter > that adds necessary escape sequences to the argument text might produce > something that pandoc can handle. Nevertheless, I have no experience > with pandoc. Is there someone on the list who has? In particular, we > probably would like a nice-looking HTML.
Pandoc is quite extendable, it does have its own filter facility. There is also latex+raw_tex mode (i.e. "pandoc -f latex+raw_tex"), which, they say, allow catcode changes. > > Ralf > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/f3f47792-0176-4e71-8611-943dc7e9c467%40hemmecke.org. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "FriCAS - computer algebra system" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/fricas-devel/CAAWYfq2SmBmHEP49DMfPZwP%2BDmchFGH%3DGRux%3Df3a1cNgYxbQ2A%40mail.gmail.com.
