Remove excess whitespace recursively — reduce_whitespace • parseLatex

Remove excess whitespace recursively

Usage

reduce_whitespace(items, recursive = TRUE, all = FALSE)

Arguments

items: A LaTeX2 object.
recursive: Apply to all lists within items.
all: If TRUE, remove all white space, not just doubles.

Value

items with double spaces or double newlines set to single, and trailing spaces removed (or all whitespace removed, if all is TRUE).

Examples

parsed <- parseLatex("a  {b\n\nc}")
parsed
#> a  {b
#> 
#> c} 
reduce_whitespace(parsed)
#> a {b
#> c}