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UnTeX, a library for manipulating (La)TeX files.
This crate, with its submodules, tries to provide a comprehensive set of tools to work with TeX and LaTeX documents.
NOTE: until
v1.0.0, UnTeX will not be considered stable, and breaking changes are expected to occur. The command line version of UnTex, installable withcargo install UnTeX --features cli, will be more stable.
(La)TeX documents are inherently hard to parse, and this for multiple reasons:
- in opposition to other programming languages, there exists no reserved keyword;
- the same character can have different meanings, i.e., category codes (see
CategoryCode), depending on the context; - commands can be re-redefined at any time, and optional and required arguments have position that is not fixed;
- multiple compilations are often required before an output document is as expected, due to auxilary files generation.
All of this makes working with such documents a challenge. UnTeX strives for a mostly correct implementation of all the syntax rules, while keeping in mind that performances are also important.
If you find a bug using UnTeX, please create an issue on GitHub, so we can continue on improving this tool.