# How to create ASCII equations
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-create-ascii-equations/99180
**Category:** Modelling & Simulations
**Tags:** question, modelingtoolkit, latexify
**Created:** [May 21, 2023, 6:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-create-ascii-equations/99180 "2023-05-21T06:43:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@ufechner7](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ufechner7)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2023, 6:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-create-ascii-equations/99180/1 "2023-05-21T06:43:21Z")
In the documentation of ModelingToolkit I find a lot of ASCII equations, e.g.
```julia
k
───────
sT + 1
```
Is there a way to generate this ascii art automatically? I looked at latexify, but I did not find an option to generate ASCII equations…
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### Author:  [@woclass](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/woclass)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2023, 7:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-create-ascii-equations/99180/2 "2023-05-21T07:01:28Z")
LaTeX =\> ASCII equ.
[https://asciitex.sourceforge.net/](https://asciitex.sourceforge.net/)
Math expr =\> ASCII/Unicode equ.
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>
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### Author:  [@ufechner7](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ufechner7)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2023, 12:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-create-ascii-equations/99180/3 "2023-05-21T12:10:16Z")
```julia
ufechner@ufryzen:~$ utftex '\frac{1}{s²+2s+1}'
1
───────
s²+2s+1
```
Not written in Julia and a bit hard to install, but works nicely now! Thank you! 🙂
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### Author:  [@stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stevengj)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2023, 12:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-create-ascii-equations/99180/4 "2023-05-21T12:46:33Z")
> [@ufechner7](#):
>
> Not written in Julia and a bit hard to install
Since [`utftex` (`libtexprintf`)](https://github.com/bartp5/libtexprintf) is written as a pure C library, it should hopefully be straightforward to package on Yggdrasil and provide a Julia wrapper.
Indeed, it might be nice to add as an optional dependency for [LaTeXStrings.jl](https://github.com/JuliaStrings/LaTeXStrings.jl), to provide a nice multi-line `text/plain` format for `display`.
_Update:_ there is already a JLL package [LibTeXPrintf\_jll](https://juliahub.com/ui/Packages/LibTeXPrintf_jll/0RkPb/1.14.2+0) created [for use by Latexify.jl](https://github.com/JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil/pull/5524) a few months ago, and Julia wrappers called [LibTexPrintf.jl](https://github.com/Suavesito-Olimpiada/LibTeXPrintf.jl)! See also [Integrate with LibTeXPrintf.jl · Issue #232 · korsbo/Latexify.jl · GitHub](https://github.com/korsbo/Latexify.jl/issues/232)
```julia
julia> using LibTeXPrintf
julia> stexprintf(raw"\frac{1}{s²+2s+1}")
" 1\n───────\ns²+2s+1"
julia> println(ans)
1
───────
s²+2s+1
julia> texprintf(raw"\frac{1}{s²+2s+1}")
1
───────
s²+2s+1
```
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### Author:  [@ufechner7](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ufechner7)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2023, 8:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-create-ascii-equations/99180/5 "2023-05-21T20:33:06Z")
Thanks for finding this package!