BLAHTEXML(1)

📦 version 1.0, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 BLAHTEXML(1) — the blahtexml glow-up 💖

okay so bestie, you found the manual page for blahtexml, and it lives in the General Commands Manual section (that's section 1, iykyk). Sit down, grab a boba, we're doing math typesetting today. 🧋✨

✨ NAME ✨

blahtexml — Converts TeX equations into MathML. That's the whole vibe. TeX goes in, MathML comes out. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

blahtexml [options] files...

That's it. Options first, then your files, periodt. 💅

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

This manual page documents briefly the blahtexml command. (Briefly!! Don't come for me, that's literally what it says.)

blahtexml converts an equation given in a syntax close to TeX into MathML. It's a simple extension of blahtex — like, blahtex's cooler younger sibling who went to college. 🎓

So in addition to the functionality of blahtex, blahtexml has XML processing in mind, and it's able to process a whole XML document into another XML document. Not just one formula at a time, bestie — blahtexml can convert all the formulas of the given XML file into MathML. All of them. Every single one. It ate. 🔥

👑 OPTIONS 👑

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-`). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the online documentation. 📖

  • --help — Show summary of options. Your classic "help me pls" button, no shame in it. 🫶
  • --texvc-compatible-commands — Enables use of commands that are specific to texvc, but that are not standard TeX/LaTeX/AMS-LaTeX commands. So like, texvc-only stuff. Special little guest commands. ✨
  • --print-error-messages — This will print out a list of all error IDs and corresponding messages that blahtex can possibly emit inside an <error> block. Every possible oopsie, catalogued. 😭

🌈 MATHML OPTIONS 🌈

These options control the MathML output of the blahtexml program. Output control room, let's go.

  • --mathml — Enables MathML output. Yeah. That's the one. Turn it on. ⭐
  • --xmlin — This allows one to embed TeX equations in an existing MathML code, using a special notation. The equations are given as attributes (inline or block) in the http://gva.noekeon.org/blahtexml namespace. Whenever blahtexml meets such an equation, it expands it into the equivalent MathML code. 🦋

For more information check http://gva.noekeon.org/blahtexml/how_to_use.html or the blahtexml manual.

  • --annotate-TeX — Produces TeX annotations in the MathML output. Little notes, but make them TeX. 🎀
  • --annotate-PNG — Produces PNG files and annotates the MathML output with the PNG file name. So you get pics and it tells you which pic. Very organized. 💅

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

The program is documented fully by the online manual available at: http://gva.noekeon.org/blahtexml

💀 AUTHOR 💀

blahtexml was written by Gilles Van Assche. blahtex (whose superset is blahtexml) was written by David Harvey.

This manual page was written by Abhishek Dasgupta <abhidg@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). 🫶

and that's the whole page bestie, you're officially literate in blahtexml now 💖 go convert some equations, you're gonna slay so hard, no cap. 🦋

signing off from the General Commands Manual, this was BLAHTEXML(1), dated March 17, 2010 — yeah it's a little vintage, that's the charm, vintage is literally just main character energy with a timestamp. 🎀✨

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