Peter Wang wrote:
>> Ah! and some good math implementation -- What does Chaco do for  
>> that?

> We've also had this discussion internally a bit.  It usually  
> concludes with us wishing that someone would just port jsmath to  
> Python, or implement Knuth's TeX layout rules in Python. :)

It looks like jsmath uses the TeX layout rules, so those are the same 
thing. If you can do it in JS, you sure should be able to do it in Python!

 > Currently Chaco2 doesn't have a math markup mechanism, but it was
> fairly trivial for me to port mpl's mathtext to Chaco1.  I didn't  
> bother moving that to Chaco2 because I really wanted to figure out a  
> way to do "real" TeX layout that would still fit into the interactive  
> model.

That would be nice. I agree, the Math-as-bitmap approach really isn't 
the way to go, but it does work OK in the meantime!

-Chris


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