AsciiMathToTex

Convert AsciiMath to TeX.

Introduction

This PHP class converts AsciiMath expressions in TeX expressions. In this way KaTeX (which is much lighter and much faster than MathJax) can be used to render AsciiMath.

PHP >= 7.0 is required.

Class synopsis

class AsciiMathToTex {

    /* Methods */
    public __construct(string $decimal = ".")
    public parse(string $asciimath): string

}

Example

require "asciimathtotex.php";

$parser = new AsciiMathToTex();
$asciimath = "x=(-b+-sqrt(b^2-4ac))/(2a)";
$tex = $parser->parse($asciimath);

Acknowledgements

This class is a port of the original asciimath2tex 1.50 by Christian Lawson-Perfect.

Developer

Giovanni Salmeri.