TRALICS(1)

✨ TRALICS — the manual page, bestie edition ✨

okay so you're about to read the TRALICS(1) page and honestly? it's giving iconic. it's a user command. it's the LaTeX-to-XML glow-up. let's go 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

tralics — a LaTeX to XML converter

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

tralics [options] source

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

A program for converting LaTeX source into parsable XML files.

source is the name of the source file, with or without a extension .tex, and it may not start with a hyphen. no cap. don't do it. 🙈

✨ OPTIONS ✨

🎀 All options start with a single or double hyphen, they are:

bestie there are SO many and we are listing every single one. no skipping. periodt. 👑

• -verbose — Prints much more things in the log file. it's chatty. it's a yapper. we love that for it 🗣️
• -silent — Prints less information on the terminal. the introvert option 🫶
• -input_file FILE — translates file FILE
• -type FOO — Uses FOO instead of the \documentclass value
• -dir RADIR — indicates where the sources are located
• -confdir — indicates where the configuration files are located
• -noxmlerror — no XML element is generated in case of error
• -interactivemath — reads from the terminal, and prints math formulas on the terminal. main character energy fr fr ✨
• -config FILE — use FILE instead of default configuration file
• -noconfig — no configuration file is used
• -utf8 — says that the source is encoded in utf8 instead of latin1
• -latin1 — overrides -utf8. it said "not today" 💀
• -utf8output — same as -oe8
• -oe8, -oe1, -oe8a, -oe1a — specifies output encoding
• -te8, -te1, -te8a, -te1a — terminal and transcript encoding
• -(no)trivialmath — special math hacking 🔥
• -(no)etex — enable or disable e-TeX extensions
• -nozerowidthelt — Use ​ rather than <zws/>
• -nozerowidthspace — no special ​ or <zws/> inserted
• -noentnames — result contains &#A0; rather than  
• -entnames=true/false — says whether or not you want  
• -noundefmac — alternate XML output for undefined commands
• -nomathml — this disables mathml mode
• -nostraightquotes — same as right_quote=B4
• -left_quote=2018 — sets translation of ` to char U+2018
• -right_quote=2019 — sets translation of ' to char U+2019
• -param foo bar — adds foo="bar" to the configuratin file
• -usequotes — double quote gives two single quotes
• -nobibyearerror — no error for wrong years in bib for raweb
• -nobibyearmodify — no hack for wrong years in bib for raweb
• -external_prog PGM — uses PGM instead of rahandler.pl for raweb
• -shell-escape — enable \write18{SHELL COMMAND}
• -tpa_status = title/all — translate all document or title only
• -distinguish_refer_in_rabib= true/false — special raweb hack
• -compatibility — keeps compatibility with older versions
• -default_class=xx — use xx.clt if current class is unknown
• -(no)math_variant — for <mi mathvariant='script'>X</mi>
• -check — (obsolete RAweb option)
• -debug — (raweb option) do not stop on the first error
• -ps — (raweb) generates PostScript instead of XML
• -xml -xmlfo -xmltex -xmlhtml -xmllint -xmlall — raweb options

ngl a few of these are labeled obsolete or raweb-only, so if you're reaching for them, that's on you bestie, the page said what it said 💜

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

(See http://www-sop.inria.fr/apics/tralics/raweb.html)

Tralics homepage: http://www-sop.inria.fr/apics/tralics This software is governed by the CeCILL license that can be found at http://www.cecill.info.

Copyright INRIA/MIAOU/APICS 2002-2008, Jos'e Grimm Licensed under the CeCILL Free Software Licensing Agreement

This manual page was written by Ross J. Reedstrom <reedstrm@cnx.org>, starting with help2man output, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

okay that's the whole page, you ate that 🫶 and for the cute lil sign-off: this is tralics 2.11.6, dated March 2008 — yes bestie, 2008, she's a vintage icon and she's still serving ⭐🎀 bye!! 💅