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texvcjs

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A TeX/LaTeX validator.

texvcjs takes user input and validates it while replacing MediaWiki-specific functions. It is a JavaScript port of texvc, which was originally written in OCaml for the Math extension.

The texvcjs library was originally written to be used by the mw-ocg-latexer PDF-generation backend of the mediawiki Collection extension.

Installation

Node version 0.8 and 0.10 are tested to work.

Install the node package dependencies with:

npm install

Ensure everything works:

npm test

Running

To test your installation:

bin/texvcjs '\sin(x)+{}{}\cos(x)^2 newcommand'

which should emit:

+\sin(x)+{}{}\cos(x)^{2}newcommand

API

Your programs can also use the JavaScript API exported by the texvcjs node module:

var texvcjs = require('texvcjs');

var result = texvcjs.check('\\sin(x)+{}{}\\cos(x)^2 newcommand');
console.log(result.status);
console.log(result.output || ''); // cleaned/validated output

If the output field is not undefined, then validation was successful.

The status field is a single character:

  • +: Success! The result is in the output field.
  • F: A TeX function was not recognized. The function name is in the details field.
  • S: A parsing error occurred.
  • -: Some other problem occurred.

For status types F, S, and -, the position of the error may be found in the line, column and offset fields of the result. More information about the problem can be found in the details field of the result, which is a string.

The fields ams_required, cancel_required, color_required, euro_required, and teubner_required are set to true iff the input string requires the use of the corresponding LaTeX packages. The ams_required field requires the use of the amsmath and amssymb packages.

Low-level API

The low level parser, abstract syntax tree (AST), and renderer are also exported from the module. This allows you to define more interesting queries on the input source. An example can be found in lib/astutil.js which defines a visitor function to test for the presence of specific TeX functions in the input.

License

Copyright (c) 2014 C. Scott Ananian

Licensed under GPLv2.

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