Re: [BLACKBOX] LaTeX for BlackBox ?

From: [at]} <Bob>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:10:45 -0000

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> 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".

I suspect that they mean the files should be on the path somewhere. The path
is an environment variable (imaginatively named PATH) containing a list of
directory names; Windows searches the directories in sequence when it is
looking for an executable file. I'd guess that the installation program
looks for 2 files with specific names, and expects to find them in the
current directory or in one of the directories named in the path.

> If someone who knew what that actually meant was helping with
> this project that
> would be a big step forward.

You can also ask questions here - no need for anyone to be formally part of
the project.

Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: BlackBox [mailto:BLACKBOX{([at]})nowhere.xy
> Sent: 19 November 2008 21:52
> To: BLACKBOX{([at]})nowhere.xy
> Subject: [BLACKBOX] LaTeX for BlackBox ?
>
> 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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