Awesome

You should be using utftex!

It is actively supported and produces better output than this.

asciiTeX

asciiTeX is an ASCII equation renderer released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. The program can generate ASCII art representations of mathematical equations. You can use asciiTeX to quickly insert equations in, e.g., emails or comments in your source code. The syntax is similar to LaTex. The asciiTeX project is a fork of eqascii, providing new features and many bug fixes to the original program.

Changes

This is a fork of Bart Pieters' asciiTeX that focuses on improving compatibility with tex2svg, for use with kramdown-rfc2629 to produce prettier math for IETF specifications.

Specifically, these changes were made (so far):

• Unicode support
• support for <> braces
• support for \eft\ and \right
• support for \text and \mathrm
• support for \binom
• better automatic whitespace insertion/removal
• remove trailing whitespaces from output
• switch build system to cmake
• removal of the GUI
• fix numerous minor bugs

There are very likely many tex2svg features still missing from this fork of asciiTeX. There are also very likely still many remaining bugs. I'd be happy to see issues filed and pull-requests opened to further improve this software.

Installing from sources

git clone https://github.com/larseggert/asciiTeX.git
cd asciiTeX
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build .