NAME

       LaTeX::Decode - Decode from LaTeX to Unicode

VERSION

       Version 0.03

SYNOPSIS

           use LaTeX::Decode;

           my $latex_string = 'Mu\\d{h}ammad ibn M\\=us\=a al-Khw\\=arizm\\={\\i}';
           my $new_string   = latex_decode($latex_string); # => 'MuXammad ibn MXsX al-KhwXrizmX'

DESCRIPTION

EXPORT

FUNCTIONS

   latex_decode($text, %options)
       Decodes the given text from LaTeX to Unicode.

       The function accepts a number of options:

           * normalize => $bool (default 1)
               whether the output string should be normalized with Unicode::Normalize

           * normalization => <normalization form> (default 'NFC')
               and if yes, the normalization form to use (see the Unicode::Normalize documentation)

           * strip_outer_braces => $bool (default 0)
               whether the outer curly braces around letters+combining marks should be
               stripped off. By default "fut{\\'e}" becomes fut{e}, to prevent something
               like '\\textuppercase{\\'e}' to become '\\textuppercasee'. Setting this option to
               TRUE can be useful for instance when converting BibTeX files.

GLOBAL OPTIONS

       The decoding scheme can be set with

           $LaTeX::Decode::DefaultScheme = '<name>';

       Possible values are 'base', 'extra' and 'full'; default value is 'extra'.

       base  => Most common macros and diacritics (sufficient for Western languages
                and common symbols)

       extra => Also converts punctuation, larger range of diacritics and macros
                (e.g. for IPA, Latin Extended Additional, etc.)

       full  => Also converts symbols, Greek letters, dingbats, negated symbols, and
                superscript characters and symbols ...

AUTHOR

       Francois Charette, "<firmicus@cpan.org>"

BUGS

       Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-latex-decode at rt.cpan.org", or
       through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=LaTeX-Decode
       <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=LaTeX-Decode>.  I will be notified, and
       then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

       Copyright 2009-2010 Francois Charette, all rights reserved.

       This module is free software.  You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
       the Artistic License 2.0.

       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty;
       without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.