Hi, I think lasem (https://github.com/GNOME/lasem) could actually be useful until we have our own rendering engine. It uses Cairo+Pango as backend(s) and can actually deal with SVG, MathML and also latex input (via itex2mml). The dependencies are not so horrible (gobject, glib, gio, gdk-pixbuf, gdk, cairo, pangocairo, libxml, bison, flex), at least if one is using Gtk.jl anyways.
Accessing it from Julia was actually quite easy (see below). If there is some interest we could turn this into a package to explore this direction further ... Best, Alex. <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-NSrJmN9vOVI/VC2xoHE3jcI/AAAAAAAAAHM/0U2QXQMWIPM/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2014-10-02%2Bat%2B22.12.05.png> <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-_BDpCbsd3wk/VC2xr4MX-xI/AAAAAAAAAHU/oSMmiI9CigM/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2014-10-02%2Bat%2B22.12.21.png> <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-NSrJmN9vOVI/VC2xoHE3jcI/AAAAAAAAAHM/0U2QXQMWIPM/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2014-10-02%2Bat%2B22.12.05.png>
