Ooxml to latex parser

A parser to transform Open Office Xml equations in latex equations

What is Open Office XML (ooxml)

Open Office XML is a zipped, xml based file format developed by Microsoft for representing spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents.

The objective of this project

This projects aims to transform ooxml oMath tags, used to represent equations in word, in latex equations.

What this project won't do

Is not in the scope open and extract xml files from .docx and even not handle other tags that isn't specified in http://www.datypic.com/sc/ooxml/s-shared-math.xsd.html

Usage

instalation

pip install -r requirements.txt

usage

# coding: utf-8
from ooxml_to_latex.ooxml_to_latex import OOXMLtoLatexParser

# real numbers set
xml = '''
<m:oMath xmlns:m="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/math" xmlns:w="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main">
	<m:r>
		<w:rPr>
			<w:rFonts w:ascii="Cambria Math" w:hAnsi="Cambria Math"/>
		</w:rPr>
		<m:t xml:space="preserve">ℝ</m:t>
	</m:r>
</m:oMath>
'''

# main function
# receives a xml string and returns a latex
latex = OOXMLtoLatexParser.parse(xml)

print latex
>>> \mathbb{R}

Suported tags

These are the currently supported tags, more are comming!!

Documentation here

• begChr
• endChr
• chr
• pos
• sub
• sup
• f
• e
• m
• mr
• limLow
• rad
• deg
• den
• num
• lim
• r
• d