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Re: Text properties and FTGL


From: John Swensen
Subject: Re: Text properties and FTGL
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:46:53 -0400


On Oct 31, 2008, at 4:41 PM, Jason Riedy wrote:

And John Swensen writes:
From everything I have read and a quick glance at preview-
latex sources, this appears to be essentially the same process.

For a fairly full set of features without LaTeX, see mimeTeX:
 http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html

If you cheat and make the image requests appear like web server
CGI requests by setting the right environment variables, you
could just exec mathTeX for high quality and fall back to running
mimeTeX if it fails.

Both are GPLv3 and probably severe overkill for plot labels.

Jason

Thanks for pointing these out. I don't know what they are not doing in mathTeX that I must be doing in my system calls, but mathTeX is significantly faster. Since it is GPL and Octave is GPL I will probably actually compile this into my Octave tests and render straight to the openGL texture, rather than have it render to a file and then read it back in. I think a time of ~0.1 seconds per LaTeX string and appropriate caching of the results is acceptable.

Once again, thanks for pointing this out.

John Swensen


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