Just found following from Linux-announce mailing list:
------
From: Przemek Borys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: eqascii 0.3.0 -- ascii equation renderer
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 19:33:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
EHLO!
Eqascii is an ascii equation renderer. That means, it renders
equations, given in a form similar to latex to ascii representation.
I hope that this program can be (or rather will be in the future)
useful i.e. in porting scientific documents to web without converting
complex equations to images, or simply if one needs to represent some
equation on a newsgroup :).
To make it more clear how does it work, here's an example:
[pborys@p-soft eqascii]$ ./eqascii
'\prod_{i=1}^{\infty}\sqrt{e^{b+c}-\frac{\left[a+\frac{a+b^{3}}{4a-3c}\r
ight]}{a_1-\sqrt{2}}}+ \left|\begin{array} \frac{8}{2} & 1 & 3 \\ 2 & 3
& \left|\begin{array} 1 & 2 \\ 3 & 4 \end{array}\right| \\ 3
& \sqrt{5} & 12 \end{array}\right|'
________________________ | |
| [ 3 ] | 8 |
| [ a + b ] | - 1 3 |
| [a + -------] | 2 |
___ oo | b + c [ 4a - 3c] | |
| | |e - --------------- + | | 1 2 | |
| | i=1 | _ | 2 3 | | |
| a - \|2 | | 3 4 | |
\| 1 | |
| 3 _ 12 |
| \|5 |
[pborys@p-soft eqascii]$
The program can be downloaded from
http://dione.ids.pl/~pborys/software/linux/eqascii-0.3.0.tar.gz
(or simply
http://dione.ids.pl/~pborys/software/linux/
in case the filename would change)
------
...last time I tried to export some document as "ASCII", it seemed that
this is exactly what lyx would need.
Another equation-to-ascii converter is in Maxima math package, but I think
it's written in Lisp.
...and how was it, did LyX support aalib for converting pictures into
ASCII? :-)
