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chunklet.document_chunker.converters.latex_2_md

Functions:

  • latex_to_md –

    Convert LaTeX code to Markdown-style plain text.

latex_to_md 

latex_to_md(file_path: str | Path) -> str

Convert LaTeX code to Markdown-style plain text.

Parameters:

  • file_path

    (str | Path) –

    Path to the latex file.

Returns:

  • str ( str ) –

    The full text content in markdown

Source code in src/chunklet/document_chunker/converters/latex_2_md.py 
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def latex_to_md(file_path: str | Path) -> str:
    """
    Convert LaTeX code to Markdown-style plain text.

    Args:
        file_path (str | Path): Path to the latex file.

    Returns:
        str: The full text content in markdown
    """
    if LatexNodes2Text is None:
        raise ImportError(
            "The 'pylatexenc' library is not installed. "
            "Please install it with 'pip install 'pylatexenc>=2.10'' or install the document processing extras "
            "with 'pip install 'chunklet-py[document]''"
        )

    with open(file_path, encoding="utf-8", errors="ignore") as f:
        latex_code = f.read()

    # Convert to text
    latex_node = LatexNodes2Text()
    text = latex_node.latex_to_text(latex_code)

    # Replace § by #
    markdown_content = re.sub(r"§\.?", "#", text)

    # Normalize consecutive newlines more than two
    return re.sub(r"\n{2,}", "\n\n", markdown_content.strip())