# convert Mathematica LaTeX to regular LaTeX

I often want to copy formulas from Mathematica into a LaTeX document. Mathematica has a “copy as LaTeX” function, but it gives me not really the results that I want:

\text{Cos}[x]+\text{Sin}[x]


I rather would like to have the following:

\cos(x)+\sin(x)


I tried to use regular expressions in Python, which kind of work, but I cannot match matching brackets or parenteses. That would be very handy, since there could be anything in the cosine.

What would be a doable way to convert this?

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Mods -- this might be a better question for the Mathematica.SE. See related TeX questions – Eli Lansey Jun 24 '12 at 23:06

In[1] := TeXForm[Cos[x] + Sin[x]]

Out[1]//TeXForm=
\sin (x)+\cos (x)

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Okay, that solves the problem directly :-) – Martin Ueding Jun 24 '12 at 12:24

And if you need to prevent evaluation of the expression you are trying to obtain the Latex form for, make sure to wrap the expression with HoldForm, as an example

otherwise you will obtain the TeXForm of the result of the integration:

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