why not use MathJax?
On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 8:03 AM, asiga asigan...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi,
I need to render LaTeX math formulas on mobile apps (iOS/Android), with
high
quality, and as efficiently as possible.
I'm considering matplotlib as the best candidate at the moment. Maybe it
might be a bit overkill because I don't need plotting, just math formulas
rendering, but it has a copycenter license (very welcome when you target
iOS), and it seems to render LaTeX math with high quality. So I think it
beats other options I found (MathGL: copyleft license; and MathJax: setting
a complete Javascript engine just for rendering math does seem overkill to
me).
However, I still have some doubts before choosing matplotlib:
1) Can I redirect the output of math rendering to OpenGL calls, or convert
it into a 2D triangle mesh for example? (if the drawing commands issued by
matplotlib when rendering math are a relatively small set, I can translate
them to OpenGL myself, but I need to know where should I do that
translation
(I've zero idea about matplotlib internals, and I'm a Python newbie -I'm
here because I need math rendering, not because I use Python).
(note that I wish to render through OpenGL because I want to be able to
interactively pan and zoom math very efficiently: the best approach would
be
to cache the matplotlib output as a -for example- 2D triangle mesh, and
then
just send the triangles to OpenGL, without having to call matplotlib on
each
screen redraw, which would kill performance)
2) In order to get matplotlib running as efficient as possible on mobile
devices, would you recommend that I translate matplotlib to C/C++ using any
of the translators available? If affirmative, what translator would you
suggest me to use?
Thanks a lot!!
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