Re[2]: More MetaPost text positioning....

[Alan G Isaac <aisaac american edu>]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Lars Clausen apparently wrote: 
> For an actual LaTeX rendering, we'd want to be able to 
> give some context, of course, but if we can get a bitmap 
> from the dvi output (which is possible), we can kinda 
> treat that as an image in Dia.  Trying to actually 
> understand and calculate what LaTeX does to our text would 
> IMHO just create more headaches than solutions. 

Another possible source of inspiration might be found in the 
way PyX interacts with LaTeX.

Cheers,
Alan Isaac