Re: wysiwig TeX in dia

[James Michael DuPont <mdupont777 yahoo com>]

> Oh, now I understand. What you were talking about
> was: modifying XPDF's
> abstraction of a renderer, so that it would output
> into a format understood
> by Dia (ideally, dia's format). 
That is what I meant.

> > Once you get your TEX into PS or eps, then the Dia
> > seems to have a EPS and DXF import
> >
> > PS converter to convert the diagram to DFX
http://home.t-online.de/home/helga.glunz/wglunz/pstoedit/
> Currently, dia has no EPS import (and I don't see
> that being available
> anytime soon). 
OH :(

> It does have some DXF import,
> however, this code is quite
> fragile and might require some tuning to the routine
> you point to.
Hmmm.....

> Assuming the EPS->DXF converter is solid enough to
> handle the task, it
> should be possible do so something.
>
> (one alternative idea might be to find/modify
> something to have an EPS->SVG
> converter. 
That is what pstoedit can do, svg output. :)

> Or even better, an SVG output module for
> Ghostscript. 
THat would be cool.

> Once the
> TeX file is converted to SVG, it should be possible
> to modify the shapes'
> SVG import routine in order to render by dia.
Ahh.. you have that?

> Basically, the TeX object
> would be a shape whose visual contents depend on the
> output of a TeX process)
Cool a create shape on the fly. You might have lots of
them. I bet one shape per polygon would be good.

> Another alternative; there are TeX -> MathML
> converters out there. Can
> MathML be transformed into SVG via XSLT ? (uh, not
> likely. 
Sounds like hell!

> What does Mozilla
> do ?). If yes, then the problem is (almost) solved.

I am not ready to volunteer on that yet. 
I would like to say that viso2002 does not have image
maps, and it does not have href, and it is pissing me
off.

Also I would like to ask what do you think about using
a postgres database backend for your object? Like be
able to store all the diagrams in a database? 
via Perl::DBD we can hook in any database around.
Cool huh?

mike

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James Michael DuPont

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