.TH TEX2MAIL 1 "26 March 2001"
.SH NAME
tex2mail \- TeX to ascii math prettyprinter
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BR tex2mail
[-linelength=
.IR length ]
[-maxdef=
.IR number ]
[-debug=
.IR number ]
[-by_par=
.IR number ]
[-TeX]
[-ragged]
[-noindent]

.SH DESCRIPTION

Filter converting TeX or LaTeX math formulae to ASCII art. tex2mail is
used by the PARI-GP calculator for output method
.I external prettyprint .
Under gp, prettyprint mode can be set by
.B default(output, 3)
(or \\o3). By default, this switches gp main output to TeX format, filtered
by

.RS
tex2mail \-TeX \-noindent \-ragged \-by_par
.RE

Flags passed to tex2mail can be modified via the
.IR prettyprinter
default in gp.

.SH OPTIONS
The following command line options are available:
.TP
.BI \-linelength=length
Wrap text at this column.
.TP
.BI \-maxdef=number
definition loops: croak if more than maxdef substitutions in a given
paragraph.
.TP
.BI \-debug=debuglevel
output debugging messages.
.TP
.BI \-by_par
Expect each paragraph to be terminated by *exactly* 2 "\\n", and do not
print an extra "\\n" between paragraphs.
.TP
.BI \-TeX
Assume input formulae are in plain TeX format.
.TP
.BI \-ragged
leave right ragged.
.TP
.BI \-noindent
assume \\noindent everywhere.
.SH BUGS

 % at the end of a line followed by \\n\\n is recognized as end of paragraph
.SH AUTHOR
Ilya Zakharevitch

.SH SEE ALSO
.IR gp (1),
.IR tex (1),

.SH COPYING

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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation.

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ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
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more details.

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