PrettyMath

Print formulas the pretty way inside your terminal.

Installation

Arch Linux

The program is available in the AUR as prettymath-git

$ yay -S prettymath-git

Other operating systems

1. install the dependencies
2. run prettymath.py

Dependencies

• python
• python-sympy

Usage

• -h prints help
• -u and --use_unicode change output to unicode
• ... all following strings are treated as expressions

Examples

$ ./prettymath.py "a*b+x"
a*b + x

$ ./prettymath.py "a*b+x" "Integral(x**2,x)"
	a*b + x
  /
 |
 |  2
 | x  dx
 |
/

./prettymath.py "Limit(1/x, x, 0)"
	 1
 lim -
x->0+x

./prettymath.py -u "Limit(1/x, x, 0)"
	 1
 lim ─
x─→0⁺x

./prettymath.py "Sum(k**-2, (k, 1, n))"
  n
____
\   `
 \    1
  \   --
  /    2
 /    k
/___,
k = 1

./prettymath.py -u "Sum(k**-2, (k, 1, n))"
  n
 ____
 ╲
  ╲   1
   ╲  ──
   ╱   2
  ╱   k
 ╱
 ‾‾‾‾
k = 1