Re: [gedit-list] Prettyprint math plugin feature

[Jesse van den Kieboom <jessevdk gnome org>]

Hi Chris,

I once made a plugin which does a little bit of what you mention. It's
outdated and was written for gedit 2, but you could take it maybe as a
starting point. It does use tex to render equations, but displays them
inline in the text. At the very least you can see how I implemented it
then to possibly get some ideas where to start. The code can be found
here: https://github.com/jessevdk/jft


Jesse

2013/2/6 Christopher Miller <cvmiller ucdavis edu>:
> Hi there!
>
> My name is Chris and I frequently use gedit for various python data analysis
> scripts.  For my research, it's quite customary to write long math formulas
> and it's somewhat difficult to detect subtle errors when writing the
> equation in a single line.  So, I was thinking about creating some sort of
> plugin that displays a prettyprint
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prettyprint) version of a math equation within
> gedit.  This would be a real time display (for example, not complied with
> TeX) and would properly display fractions, powers, subscripts, greek
> letters, etc.
>
> Has there been any interest in this sort of plugin?  I've googled around and
> wasn't able to dig anything up.  Any advice on where to start?
>
> Thank you very much,
> Chris Miller
> Physics Graduate Student
> University of California at Davis
>
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