Biber::LaTeX::Recode

Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (3)
Updated: 2020-07-27
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NAME

Biber::LaTeX::Recode - Encode/Decode chars to/from UTF-8/lacros in LaTeX

SYNOPSIS

    use Biber::LaTeX:Recode

    my $string = 'MuXammad ibn MXsX al-KhwXrizmX';
    my $latex_string = latex_encode($string);
        # => 'Mu\d{h}ammad ibn M\=us\=a al-Khw\=arizm\={\i}'

    my $string = 'Mu\d{h}ammad ibn M\=us\=a al-Khw\=arizm\={\i}';
    my $utf8_string   = latex_decode($string);
        # => 'MuXammad ibn MXsX al-KhwXrizmX'

DESCRIPTION

Allows conversion between Unicode chars and LaTeX macros.

GLOBAL OPTIONS

Possible values for the encoding/decoding set to use are 'null', 'base' and 'full'; default value is 'base'.

null => No conversion

base => Most common macros and diacritics (sufficient for Western languages
and common symbols)

full => Also converts punctuation, larger range of diacritics and macros
(e.g. for IPA, Latin Extended Additional, etc.), symbols, Greek letters,
dingbats, negated symbols, and superscript characters and symbols ...

init_sets(<decode set>, <encode_set>)

  Initialise recoding sets. We can't do this on loading the module as we don't have the config
  information to do this yet

latex_decode($text, @options)

Converts LaTeX macros in the $text to Unicode characters.

The function accepts a number of options:

    * normalize => $bool (default 1)
        whether the output string should be normalized with Unicode::Normalize

    * normalization => <normalization form> (default 'NFD')
        and if yes, the normalization form to use (see the Unicode::Normalize documentation)

latex_encode($text, @options)

Converts UTF-8 to LaTeX

AUTHOR

Philip Kime "<philip at kime.org.uk>"

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on our Github tracker at <https://github.com/plk/biber/issues>.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

This module is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.