Re: [Matplotlib-users] GSoC: TeX rendering engine

2009-05-03 Thread projetmbc
Freddie Witherden a écrit : > Hi all, > > For those that are interested I have finally (now that my first batch > of exams are finished) set-up a blog so that you can track the > progress of the project. > > My blog can be found here: http://gsoc-mathtex.blogspot.com/ (no marks > for originality

Re: [Matplotlib-users] GSoC: TeX rendering engine

2009-05-02 Thread Freddie Witherden
Hi all, For those that are interested I have finally (now that my first batch of exams are finished) set-up a blog so that you can track the progress of the project. My blog can be found here: http://gsoc-mathtex.blogspot.com/ (no marks for originality ;). I intend to update it on a semi-

Re: [Matplotlib-users] GSoC: TeX rendering engine

2009-04-27 Thread Freddie Witherden
Hi all, On 27 Apr 2009, at 15:33, Michael Droettboom wrote: Freddie Witherden wrote: However, my primary focus will be on Cairo and Qt backends. These are widely used, allow for high quality output in various formats (PDF, PNG and SVG being the big three) and are well tested. It would also b

Re: [Matplotlib-users] GSoC: TeX rendering engine

2009-04-27 Thread projetmbc
You're right. I've misunderstood your message. Christophe Kasper Peeters a écrit : >> If it becomes easy to have formulas with Python then it would be used. >> That's sure. You can't say that C++ is better. >> > > I didn't mean to say that, sorry if I gave the wrong impression. I > simply

Re: [Matplotlib-users] GSoC: TeX rendering engine

2009-04-27 Thread Kasper Peeters
> If it becomes easy to have formulas with Python then it would be used. > That's sure. You can't say that C++ is better. I didn't mean to say that, sorry if I gave the wrong impression. I simply meant to say that _if_ there are certain design decisions which can be made such that interfacing wi

Re: [Matplotlib-users] GSoC: TeX rendering engine

2009-04-27 Thread projetmbc
If it becomes easy to have formulas with Python then it would be used. That's sure. You can't say that C++ is better. I prefer Python, you work with C++, so why only a C++ version rather than a Python one ? Christophe. Kasper Peeters a écrit : > Since the user base for a TeX typesetting libra

Re: [Matplotlib-users] GSoC: TeX rendering engine

2009-04-27 Thread projetmbc
C++ and Python versions would be great. Christophe Michael Droettboom a écrit : > Freddie Witherden wrote: > >> However, my primary focus will be on Cairo and Qt backends. These are >> widely used, allow for high quality output in various formats (PDF, >> PNG and SVG being the big three) and

Re: [Matplotlib-users] GSoC: TeX rendering engine

2009-04-27 Thread Michael Droettboom
Freddie Witherden wrote: > However, my primary focus will be on Cairo and Qt backends. These are > widely used, allow for high quality output in various formats (PDF, > PNG and SVG being the big three) and are well tested. It would also be great to pull in the pure-Python PDF and SVG code from m

Re: [Matplotlib-users] GSoC: TeX rendering engine

2009-04-26 Thread Kasper Peeters
> However, my primary focus will be on Cairo and Qt backends. These are > widely used, allow for high quality output in various formats (PDF, > PNG and SVG being the big three) and are well tested. Ok, that sounds reasonable. > The lack of a C++/C library should not be a major issue. Python i

Re: [Matplotlib-users] GSoC: TeX rendering engine

2009-04-24 Thread Freddie Witherden
Hi all, Sorry it has taken me so long to get back to you all however I am in the middle of exam season and so time is scarce. For the most part the (current) code is agnostic with regards to the rendering backend. The only real functionality required is the ability to draw lines and plot

Re: [Matplotlib-users] GSoC: TeX rendering engine

2009-04-22 Thread Michael Droettboom
At this point, the expected dependencies are on freetype for font rendering and Numpy and/or PIL for imaging. Nothing platform-specific. There aren't any plans to make it usable from other languages, but certainly a commandline interface would be trivial. Mike Kasper Peeters wrote: > Hi all,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] GSoC: TeX rendering engine

2009-04-21 Thread Alan G Isaac
Other projects than can profit if this is thought through: - docutils (e.g., the rst2mathml writer) - plasTeX (which additionally should have many good ideas to share) Alan Isaac -- Stay on top of everything new and diff

Re: [Matplotlib-users] GSoC: TeX rendering engine

2009-04-21 Thread projetmbc
That's could be "cool" but this needs to have access to the size of the final picture of the formula and the location of the baseline of the text. With this, it's easy to put formulas in a web page. Christophe. > Are there already any more concrete ideas on how this will be realised > technicall

[Matplotlib-users] GSoC: TeX rendering engine

2009-04-21 Thread Kasper Peeters
Hi all, I noticed that a Google Summer of Code project has been allocated for extraction of the TeX rendering engine of matplotlib. Excellent! Are there already any more concrete ideas on how this will be realised technically, in particular how this engine will be callable from Python programs? W