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From: | John Swensen |
Subject: | Re: Google Summer of Code - LaTeX processing |
Date: | Thu, 30 May 2013 13:26:52 -0400 |
On 05/30/2013 12:19 PM, Patrick Noffke wrote:
address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden><mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
A long time ago in 2008, I had spent just a few days looking at the
problem you will be working on for GSoC. Here is a discussion about
what I did on the mailing list archive:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.octave.maintainers/11892/focus=11911
Your solution probably will end up being a lot better (seeing that
you have a summer to work on it), but I simply tried to use
mimeTeX (http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html)
and
mathTeX (http://www.forkosh.com/mathtex.html)
to generate rasterized version of small LaTeX statements.
For the life of me, I can't find my old code, but maybe this is a
decent starting point. mimeTeX is a pretty limited implemenation of
a LaTeX parse and doesn't use the standard fonts. mathTeX, on the
other hand, uses an underlying LaTeX installation to generate the
image of the _expression_ and crop it accordingly. I had also just
tried to do my own calls to generate a PDF page, use pdfcrop, then
convert to a raster, but mathTeX was doing something that made it
much, much faster (e.g 200 per second).
Hope this helps you get started, and I am looking forward to having
TeX support in plot text objects!
John Swensen
Thanks, John, that is very helpful background info.
You might also look at what matplotlib does for handling TeX and LaTeX markup.
jwe
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