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tex2mail [-linelength= length] [-maxdef= number] [-debug= number] [-by_par= number] [-TeX] [-ragged] [-noindent]

Filter converting TeX or LaTeX math formulae to ASCII art. tex2mail is used by the PARI-GP calculator for output method external prettyprint . Under gp, prettyprint mode can be set by default(output, 3) (or \o3). By default, this switches gp main output to TeX format, filtered by

Flags passed to tex2mail can be modified via the prettyprinter default in gp.

The following command line options are available:

-linelength=length

Wrap text at this column.

-maxdef=number

definition loops: croak if more than maxdef substitutions in a given paragraph.

-debug=debuglevel

output debugging messages.

-by_par

Expect each paragraph to be terminated by *exactly* 2 "\n", and do not print an extra "\n" between paragraphs.

-TeX

Assume input formulae are in plain TeX format.

-ragged

leave right ragged.

-noindent

assume \noindent everywhere.

% at the end of a line followed by \n\n is recognized as end of paragraph

Ilya Zakharevitch

gp(1), tex(1),

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