Transform LaTeX to Unicode

It is possible to transform a subset of LaTeX to Unicode, as demonstrated by unicodeit website. Unfortunately, unicodeit only works on short LaTeX strings.

Here, I write a simple parser with Lark to process more complex LaTeX strings. A more complete version of this prototype is available as unicodeitplus.

Lark is awesome, because it generates the parser from an EMBL string, is fast and lightweight.

Let’s see how well (or not) this works on a few examples.

foo?!-1+2. \}  \\ $\left(\mathbf{\alpha + 1}^2_x y\right)$ bar $\beta^{12}$ $\bar p {}^foo$ $\bar \mathrm{t}$ 

'foo?!-1+2. } \\ (𝛂+𝟏²ₓ𝑦) bar 𝛽¹² 𝑝̄ᶠ𝑜𝑜 t̄ '

'𝐷**→ℎℎ𝑒𝑒'

'𝐱𝐲𝐳+𝟏'

'√1̅𝐴̅𝑎̅𝑠̅𝛼̅'

'𝑥⃗𝑏²𝛼⃗𝛼̅𝐾⁰ₛ𝑝ₜT'

'√𝑎̅𝑏̅𝑐̅𝑑̅'

'𝑝ₜ/GeV𝑐⁻¹'

'Search for resonant tt̅ production in proton-proton collisions at √𝑠̅=13 TeV'