Cleanup: Offer conversion from Unicode to LaTeX

[koppor]

Currently, the functionality "Run Unicode converter, title, author(s), and abstract" converts from LaTeX encoding to Unicode. We should also offer the reverse conversion.

Furthermore, the current string should be "Convert LaTeX encoded characters to their Unicode equivalent", as it might be unclear, what a "Unicode converter" is or what it exactly does. Which direction does it convert?

• Add a LaTeXToUnicodeFormatter (refs Table of formatters #920). Then this will automatically be added to "Run field formatter" in "Cleanup entries"

See also #160, #161.

[oscargus]

No, it is the opposite. Conversion from Unicode to LaTeX works really well, while the opposite is more limited.

[tobiasdiez]

As @oscargus, I thought that the cleanup converts Unicode characters to their Latex equivalent. Is there even a converse cleanup operation? By the way, your remarks also apply to the HTML converter.

[oscargus]

There's an export formatter that does the reverse operation: FormatChars. However, that uses a much more limited set of characters.

See #807 for, well, not any updates, but the purpose is to eventually convert the content of the long list to something like the Maps in HTMLCharsMap and LatexToUnicodeCharMap. That would be a quick way to make it work.

[oscargus]

I'd say that the conversion between LaTeX and Unicode is quite OK at the moment with #841

[koppor]

Is that available as Formatter? I don't see a LaTeXToUnicodeFormatter in #920.

[tobiasdiez]

No it is not

[tobiasdiez]

The LatexToUnicodeFormatter was added recently. So this issue can be closed?