asciimath-text-renderer

Render asciimath in terminal

Display math formulas as plain text using unicode characters.

This is work in progress, several important parts of spec are not supported yet.

Examples:

The Discrete Fourier Transform is defined as X^k=1/N sum_(n=0)^(N-1)x_n * e^(-ik (2pi)/N n) = 1/N sum_(n=0)^(N-1)x_n[cos(k (2pi)/N n) -i sin(k (2pi)/N n)]

                  2π                                      
              -ik────n                                    
 k  1  N-1         N    1  N-1  ⎡   ⎛  2π  ⎞     ⎛  2π  ⎞⎤
X =───∑   x ⋅e        =───∑   x ⎥cos⎜k────n⎜-isin⎜k────n⎜⎥
    N  n=0 n            N  n=0 n⎣   ⎝   N  ⎠     ⎝   N  ⎠⎦

f(x)=sqrt x + 1/2x^2

        ▁  1  2
f(x)=2╲╱x+───x 
           2   

sqrt x

  ▁
╲╱x

Limitations:

• cancel cannot be implemented in general. It is possible to replace it with strike-through line for text literals ( cancel x -> x̶ or x̷ or x̸ ), there is no way to do it for expressions.

• we don't control fonts, therefore fancy text effects are also impossible or very limited (they can be imitated for text literals)

usage:

cargo add asciimath-text-renderer

if you downloaded source, you can run example:

cargo run --example render 'sqrt(2)'
  ▁
╲╱2