NAME

Text::AsciiTeX::Syntax - A description of the syntax accepted by Text::AsciiTeX

SYNTAX

\frac{a}{b}

A fraction of a and b.

a^{b}

A superscript. One can also omit the braces. In this case the first character following ^ will be superscripted.

a_{b}

A subscript. Works just like the superscript (well, not exactly of course).

\sqrt[n]{a}

A n-th root of a, the argument [n] is optional. Without it it produces the square root of a.

\sum

Expands to a sigma

\prod

Expands to the product mark (pi).

\int

Expands to the integral mark.

\oint

A closed path integral.

\left( , \right)

Expands to braces which adept to the height of their content. Available left braces are: ([{| The correspondingright braces are: )]}| All brace types can be opened by \left. or closed by <\right.>, producing a single right or left brace, respectively.

\leadsto

Expands to an arrow (~>), May look ugly depending on your fonts.

\to

Expands to an arrow (->).

\limit{x}

Expands to a limit, i.e. \limit{x \to 0}.

\overline{X}

Draws a line above expression X

\underline{X}

Draws a line under expression X

\lceil

Left ceiling symbol

\rceil

Right ceiling symbol

\lfloor

Left floor symbol

\rfloor

Right floor symbol

\\

Insert a line break.

\a

Escapes the character a. Useful for inserting characters like ^, and _ in your equation.

array environment

\begin{array}[pos]{column alignments}
  a00 & a01 & ... a0n \\
  a10 & a11 & ... a1n \\
  ... & ... & ... ... \\
  am0 & am1 & ... amn
\end{array}
      

Makes an array. The optional argument pos sets the alignment of the array to t (top), b (bottom) or c (center). The column alignments consist of one character per column, l (left), c (center), or r (right). Currently asciiTeX does not support vertical or horizontal lines, e.g. the column- alignment specification {|c|} will lead to errors. Note, that the string \begin{array} must not contain spaces. Cells of the array may contain formulas and sub-arrays.

EXAMPLES

You can pass any of these examples to render to see what it does.

\frac{1}{1+x}

\lfloorx\rfloor = x -\frac{1}{2} + \sum_{k=1}^{\infty}
\frac{sin(2 Pi k x)}{pi k}

\begin{array}{ccc}
x_{11} & x_{12} & x_{13}\\
x_{21} & x_{22} & x_{23}\\
x_{31} & x_{32} & x_{33}
\end{array}

\left[
\begin{array}{ccc}
x_{11} & x_{12} & x_{13}\\
x_{21} & x_{22} & x_{23}\\
x_{31} & x_{32} & x_{33}
\end{array}
\right]

\int_0^W \frac{np}{n+p}dx = \int_0^W \frac{n_0}{exp \left( 
\frac{E_0(x-x_0)}{kT} \right)+exp \left( -\frac{E_0(x-x_0)}{kT}\right)}
dx=\frac{n_0kT}{E_0} \left[ arctan \left( exp 
\left[\frac{E_0(x-x_0)}{kT}\right]\right)\right]^{x=W}_{x=0}~ 
\frac{n_0kT}{E_0} pi

f(x) = \left{\begin{array}{lr} 
\frac{1}{x+1} +12 & \-12<x<0\\
  & \\ 13-x & x<\-12, x>0
\end{array}\right.

a = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2} + 
\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} + 
\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} + 
\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} + ...
}}}}

AUTHOR

This document is a direct port from the documenation of asciiTeX program written by Bart Pieters. See http://asciitex.sourceforge.net/.