This project is an extension to the PreTeXt MathBook XML project. It provides a convenient way for PreTeXt authors to convert AsciiMath to LaTeX.

Please install Python 2.7 and xsltproc before continuing.

Clone this repository. Then, clone mathbook repository to access PreTeXt source, including a sample book and article.

$ git clone https://github.com/ymittal/asciimath
$ cd asciimath
$ git clone https://github.com/rbeezer/mathbook
$ virtualenv .env && source .env/bin/activate   # (optional) setup virtualenv
$ pip install -r requirements.txt               # setup pip dependencies
$ chmod +x pretext.sh

Run this command to convert AsciiMath markup, written as <m>`asciimath goes here</m> in <XML>, to LaTeX. It also runs xsltproc with any arguments specified after ./pretext.sh.

$ ./pretext.sh -o <output_dir> <STYLESHEET> <XML>

Check this for xsltproc documentation.

This command converts AsciiMath markup in files in samples folder, stores new XML files to samples-latex folder and generates HTML files into generated-html folder using xsltproc.

$ ./pretext.sh -o generated-html/ mathbook/xsl/mathbook-html.xsl samples/asciimath.xml

• All files in samples remain unchanged lest the pretext.sh script unexpectedly modify the source XML.
• AsciiMath to LaTeX conversion is done only on files with .xml, .ptx extensions in samples. Other files are copied to samples-latex as is.

To check the AsciiMath to LaTeX conversion on a single XML file, run

$ python replace.py --xml samples/asciimath.xml

Please feel free to contact Yash Mittal or create an issue if you have questions regarding this project.