displaying mathematical formulas... TeX widget?

rising_g

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Jan 8, 2007, 6:33:31 PM1/8/07

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has anyone managed to render TeX code into a widget?

I'm interested in getting a widget that can display mathematical formulas.
TeX seems to me a high-quality solution, but if there is also a minimalist
TeX clone for math written in tcl, I would be happy to extend it...

any help appreciated

Kevin Kenny

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Jan 8, 2007, 7:34:50 PM1/8/07

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One minimalist starting point is on the Wiki:

http://wiki.tcl.tk/6004

although its author, as I understand it, would like to reimplement
the code along the lines of http://wiki.tcl.tk/13434

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Donal K. Fellows

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Jan 8, 2007, 7:41:55 PM1/8/07

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rising_g wrote:
> has anyone managed to render TeX code into a widget?

Does it need to happen dynamically? If not, a reasonable approach is to
use TeX itself to format the formulae, and then convert the resulting
document to an image which you can then display. This works pretty
well, but isn't very fast. It's also a long time since I did it last; I
know I've forgotten details...

Donal.

Arjen Markus

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Jan 9, 2007, 3:33:31 AM1/9/07

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Kevin Kenny schreef:

>
> One minimalist starting point is on the Wiki:
>
> http://wiki.tcl.tk/6004
>
> although its author, as I understand it, would like to reimplement
> the code along the lines of http://wiki.tcl.tk/13434
>

Yes, this is one of my many pet projects that deserve a better fate,
but the implementation as I have it in mind at the moment should
be fairly straightforward.

Regards,

Arjen

Michael Schlenker

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Jan 9, 2007, 2:58:53 PM1/9/07

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rising_g schrieb:

There is a DVI widget, if you can live with it.

Michael

rising_g

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Jan 9, 2007, 4:13:26 PM1/9/07

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uhm, really I don't like having a delay.
I'm more oriented to a dynamic interactive widget.

seems i have to start from scratch, or maybe looking for some ideas on the
wiki

thanks anyway

rr

rising_g

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Jan 9, 2007, 4:14:31 PM1/9/07

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"Arjen Markus" <arjen....@wldelft.nl> wrote in message
news:1168331611.6...@i15g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

>
> Kevin Kenny schreef:
>
>>
>> One minimalist starting point is on the Wiki:
>>
>> http://wiki.tcl.tk/6004
>>
>> although its author, as I understand it, would like to reimplement
>> the code along the lines of http://wiki.tcl.tk/13434

hey this looks interesting!
maybe I'll spend some time on understanding it this week-end...

thanks for the suggestion

> Yes, this is one of my many pet projects that deserve a better fate,
> but the implementation as I have it in mind at the moment should
> be fairly straightforward.
>
> Regards,
>
> Arjen

rr

Donald Arseneau

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Jan 9, 2007, 5:37:37 PM1/9/07

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"rising_g" <risi...@192.168.1.48> writes:

> >> has anyone managed to render TeX code into a widget?
> >
> > Does it need to happen dynamically? If not, a reasonable approach is to
> > use TeX itself to format the formulae, and then convert the resulting
> > document to an image which you can then display. This works pretty
> > well, but isn't very fast.
>

> uhm, really I don't like having a delay.

It can be made very fast, but it requires a special TeX daemon
so that you don't get the startup delay for every formula.

See also the preview-latex system for emacs (part of auctex now).

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Arjen Markus

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Jan 11, 2007, 2:58:40 AM1/11/07

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Arjen Markus schreef:

>
> Yes, this is one of my many pet projects that deserve a better fate,
> but the implementation as I have it in mind at the moment should
> be fairly straightforward.
>

Well, I picked it up again, started an alternative implementation and
while this is coming along nicely, it is not ready for "Wiki time" yet.
Still, the concept seems to be working quite well.

Regards,

Arjen