Re: [BLACKBOX] LaTeX for BlackBox ?

From: Douglas G. Danforth <"Douglas>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:08:49 -0800

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Robert,
I would also like such a capability.
My Unix experience is getting very old so I don't think
I can be of much help here but I can give it a go.
I looked at LaTeX some years ago and blanched at the
complexity. Donald Knuth was trying to keep his books
looking the same but, in my opinion, did a disservice to the
field by foisting TeX and MetaFont, and .. LaTeX upon us.
Oh, well, the physics community seems to us it a lot.
-Doug Danforth

Robert wrote:
> Folks
>
> I have often wanted the ability to type a line of ASCII into a BlackBox
> document, do one click, and have a View of a Bitmap of a nicely typeset
> mathematical equation.
>
> It seems to me that most of the pieces to do this actually exist:
>
> 1 - I know how to write a 'Fold' variant to switch between a Text
> segment and a View.
>
> 2 - Bitmap View types exist; for example CpcBitmaps.View. These can be
> efficiently saved to disc using CpcCompressors & Pac.
>
> 3 - GIF images can be read from disc into BlackBox using FreeImage. I
> have code that will convert them into CpcBitmaps.Views (or
> HostBitmaps.StdViews).
>
> 4 - Programs exist that will read a file containing a line of LaTeX
> source, and use TeX to create a GIF file of the rendered equation.
> See, for example, GladTeX (http://www.myphysicslab.com/gladtex.html).
> There are other packages that do something similar, and may be easier
> to use?
>
>
> Is anyone else interested in such a capability, and is prepared to
> assist in such a project? I would hope it is not a very big project
> (if it is, I shall give up!). I feel reasonably confident about the
> BlackBox side of things, but would want help from someone with a
> stronger C/Unix/Windows background than I have.
>
> As an example the GladTeX installation instructions say "Get the two
> files ...
> and put them somewhere that can be found by the Windows command line".
> If someone who knew what that actually meant was helping with this
> project that would be a big step forward.
>
> Cheers
>
> Robert
>
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