Is there a re guru out there?

Krzysiek Czarnowski krzysiek at dgt-lab.com.pl
Mon Jul 8 05:44:36 EDT 2002


Hello!
And thanks for the prompt answer.

Daniel Yoo <dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:

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> Ah, a LaTeX to TeX converter.  Cool!

Well, rather a simple tool to reduce the amount of manual work required...

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> If you can guarantee that there isn't any nested braces within the "frac"
groups
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I would like to accept nested braces (at least to some extent)...
Later I will look into your examples closer.

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> However, if there are groups within the frac groups, like:
>
>    \frac{e^{42}}{\pi}
>
> then that will cause problems.  This kind of pattern is something that
> regular expressions alone won't be able to cope with, because the
> grammar is recursively defined.

That's what I was afraid of...
Probably I will have to do with a solution accepting only finite level of
nesting...

Thanks anyway,
Krzysztof








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