Latex to Markdown Preprocessor

Annoyed that Pandoc doesn't correctly handle figure labels? Well, this module is just for you!

ltmd uses regex to extract figures, references, and mathematics, and processes them separately to Pandoc so that the figure references, etc. are preserved.

Usage

Use:

python3 preprocess.py <input> <output>

for example to generate the test markdown, we use

python3 preprocess.py test.tex test.md

The module can also be used through an API, through the two objects that are given.

One should use:

pre_processed = ltmd.PreProcess(input_text)
pandocced = ltmd.run_pandoc(pre_processed.parsed_text)
post_processed = ltmd.PostProcess(pandocced, pre_processed.parsed_data)

The final output string can then be extracted by using post_processed.parsed_text.

It is also possible to use a wrapper function in ltmd from markdown,

ltmd.inputoutput.parse_file(input_filename, output_filename)

Requirements

• python3 (no python2 version will ever be made available)
• pandoc somewhere in your path.
• pypandoc