LaTeX2OQMath

LaTeX2OQMath is yet another initiative aiming at enhancing the presentation-oriented LaTeX content with semantic information. The approach is based on LaTeXML and XSL Stylesheets: First, the LaTeX document is converted to a transitional XML representation by using LaTeXML. Then, a set of XSL Stylesheets is applied, yielding OQMath(=OMDoc with QMath formulae) output.

The tool is available here for download. An installation of LaTeXML is required for LaTeX2OQMath to work properly. Currently, only systems sporting BASH are supported (*NIX, MacOS X tested, maybe also Windows+cywin or mingw).

Quick Start:

1. Download and unzip l2o.zip in a directory
2. cd to that directory
3. You can use LaTeX2OQMath from the command-line:

   l2o.sh -s <your source document> -t <target directory>
   

Known limitations, planned work:

• The converter was built to transform a book about algebraic geometry in the first place, so the stylesheets are tuned to that domain. I did also run them on very basic calculus documents. The converter will fail to recognize symbols from other domains, this has to be built incrementally. Notable lacking symbols are the integral, the nabla operator, the factorial...
• The stylesheets only generate omtext tags. If time permits it I will work on the generation of appropriate types (if corresponding macros were used in the TeX source).

Customization:

By default, the converter script will use all stylesheets located in ${L2O_HOME}/xsl/transformation-units to perform the transformation. You can change this behaviour by specifying a directory with the parameter -x. This directory should contain stylesheets as well as relevant notations as well as required symbol declarations. The stylesheets have to contain a priority rating specified as a comment in the first line:

<!-- priority: n -->