That sounds like a reasonable approach to try. I think one way to do this might be
1. Wrapping mimetex into a package to use it from Julia. Maybe one could turn it into a shared library first (there seems to be a DLL version already)? This might be useful also for other purposes. 2. Find some way to allow alternative text rendering in Winston/Cairo (maybe Mike or Tim have some suggestions?). Maybe we could have an abstract TextRenderer type. The current Pango-based routines would then belong to PangoTextRenderer. Then we could have a MimeTeXRenderer, which renders text and fomrulae to bitmaps and shows those instead. Best, Alex. On Saturday, 27 September 2014 11:57:29 UTC+2, Paweł Biernat wrote: > I found out that mimetex [1] produces images of reasonable quality, is small > and has no dependencies. Do you think it could be used as a temporary > solution until a TeX parser is implemented? > > [1] http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html > > W dniu sobota, 20 września 2014 08:50:38 UTC+2 użytkownik Andreas Lobinger > napisał: > Just to note, the file starts with a header: > > matplotlib.mathtext is a module for parsing a subset of the > > > > TeX math syntax > > gtkmathview does not seem to be maintained anymore. > On the js side there is http://khan.github.io/KaTeX/
