---
name: "tralics"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "tralics"
version: "2.14.4-2.1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/tralics"
---

# tralics(1)

a LaTeX to XML converter

## NAME

tralics - a LaTeX to XML converter

## SYNOPSIS

**tralics** \[*options*\] *source*

## DESCRIPTION

A program for converting LaTeX source into parsable XML files

source is the name of the source file,

(with or without a extension .tex), and may not start with a hyphen

## OPTIONS

### All options start with a single or double hyphen, they are:

**-verbose**: Prints much more things in the log file

**-silent**: Prints less information on the terminal

**-input\_file** FILE: translates file FILE

**-type** FOO: Uses FOO instead of the \\documentclass value

**-dir** RADIR: indicates where the sources are located

**-confdir** : indicates where the configuration files are located

**-noxmlerror**: no XML element is generated in case of error

**-interactivemath**: reads from the terminal, and prints math formulas on the terminal

**-config** FILE: use FILE instead of default configuration file

**-noconfig**: no configuration file is used

**-utf8**: says that the source is encoded in utf8 instead of latin1

**-latin1**: overrides **-utf8**

**-utf8output**: same as **-oe8**

**-oe8**, **-oe1**, **-oe8a** **-oe1a**: specifies output encoding

**-te8**, **-te1**, **-te8a** **-te1a**: terminal and transcript encoding

**-(no)trivialmath**: special math hacking

**-(no)etex**: enable or disable e-TeX extensions

- **-nozerowidthelt**: Use &#x200B; rather than \<zws/\>

  **-nozerowidthspace**: no special &#x200B; or \<zws/\> inserted

**-noentnames**: result contains &#A0; rather than &nbsp;

**-entnames**=*true*/false: says whether or not you want &nbsp;

**-noundefmac**: alternate XML output for undefined commands

**-nomathml**: this disables mathml mode

**-nostraightquotes**: same as right\_quote=B4

**-left\_quote**=*2018*: sets translation of \` to char U+2018

**-right\_quote**=*2019*: sets translation of ' to char U+2019

**-param** foo bar: adds foo="bar" to the configuratin file

**-usequotes**: double quote gives two single quotes

**-nobibyearerror**: no error for wrong years in bib for raweb

**-nobibyearmodify**: no hack for wrong years in bib for raweb

**-external\_prog** PGM: uses PGM instead of rahandler.pl for raweb

**-shell-escape**: enable \\write18{SHELL COMMAND}

**-tpa\_status** = title/all: translate all document or title only

**-distinguish\_refer\_in\_rabib=** true/false: special raweb hack

**-compatibility**: keeps compatibility with older versions

**-default\_class**=*xx*: use xx.clt if current class is unknown

**-(no)math\_variant**: for \<mi mathvariant='script'\>X\</mi\>

**-check**: (obsolete RAweb option)

**-debug**: (raweb option) do not stop on the first error

**-ps**: (raweb) generates PostScript instead of XML

**-xml** **-xmlfo** **-xmltex** **-xmlhtml** **-xmllint** **-xmlall**: raweb options

## SEE ALSO

(See http://www-sop.inria.fr/apics/tralics/raweb.html)

Tralics homepage: http://www-sop.inria.fr/apics/tralics This software is governed by the CeCILL license that can be found at http://www.cecill.info.

Copyright INRIA/MIAOU/APICS 2002-2008, Jos\\'e Grimm Licensed under the CeCILL Free Software Licensing Agreement

This manual page was written by Ross J. Reedstrom \<reedstrm@cnx.org\>, starting with **help2man** output, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).