[Ruby] A tool to convert LaTeX-style macrons to macron characters, html entities, or UTF-8 escape codes
When I write my Latin homework in LaTeX, the source winds up looking like this:
\item[13.] Am={\i}c={o}s tr={\i}st={e}s exc={e}pit, ad m={e}nsam inv={\i}t={a}vit, et e={\i}s perfugium ac s={o}l={a}cium h={\i}c dedit.
{ Aside: You might be thinking that entering “\ = { \ i }” just to get a single character would be a drag, but thanks to Textmate I have created snippets such that Control + letter does all that typing for me }
Now if I want to post this to the web, I need to convert those characters from say “={\i}” to “\ī”. I would like it to go through the sentence and change each of those LaTeX-macron characters to HTML entities.
Similarly, I occasionally have need to convert LaTeX-macron sequences to UTF-8 codes.
And yet other times I want it to convert those codes to macron-ized characters.
The best part is that I’ve written this function into Textmate as an extension so for me conversion is:
Default String
Highlight the LaTeX string
Choose my command with this script in it
Text is replaced, magically!
And it looks like this in a browser…
\item[13.] Amīcōs trīstēs excēpit, ad mēnsam invītāvit, et eīs perfugium ac sōlācium hī