tex2unicode!

That's the output of Maxima. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxima_%28software%29
Some of the systems went further and don't restrict themselves to plain ASCII. Axiom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_%28computer_algebra_system%29
can produce such a nice output: 2 x %A ┌──┐

tex2unicode alternatives

  • 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. e-mails 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.

    tags: latex-to-text latex-to-ascii
  • latex2rtf

  • latex2rtf is a translator program to convert LaTeX formatted text files into “rich text format” (RTF) files. RTF is a published standard format by Microsoft. This standard can be ambiguous in places, but RTF is supported by many text editors. Specifically, it is supported by Microsoft Word. This means that the conversion of a LaTeX document to RTF allows anyone with a copy of Word to convert LaTeX files to Word .doc or .docx files.

    tags: latex-to-doc latex-to-docx latex-to-rtf latex-to-text
  • tex2mail

  • tex2mail – Converts TeX to mailable "ASCII art"

    tags: latex-to-text latex-to-ascii