From Luca, Maths In AbiWord.

I'm forwarding an email from Luca regarding the current GtkMathView
progress.

Luca has made a lot of progress on his Computer Modern (Latex) font
renderer but is having trouble interfacing with our zooming code.

Please look at the configure line for how to make CVS GtkMathView work
with AbiWord!

Cheers

Martin

-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Luca Padovani <lpadovan@cs.unibo.it>
To: msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au
Cc: lpadovan@cs.unibo.it
Subject: Re: [Gtkmathview] ANN: gtkmathview 0.6.5
Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 16:51:35 +0200
Dear Martin,

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 00:09 +1000, msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
> We'll need to work out a better solution. Can you send me the patch?

the first step for you would be to cvs update gtkmathview, which has
gone through a large number of changes.

Next, reconfigure gtkmathview with the usual line plus one more option
--enable-tfm (this option is currently disabled by default). The line I
use looks like this:

configure
  --without-t1lib
  --disable-boxml
  --disable-gmetadom
  --disable-libxml2-reader
  --disable-custom-reader
  --prefix=/home/lpadovan/local
  --enable-pipe
  --enable-tfm

At the end ./configure also gives you a summary of the features that are
ready for compilation, in case you have trouble it might be useful to
send me that summary so that I have a relatively clear view of your
status.

At this point the "old" abimathview plugin should still work (unless
I've forgotten something) and I should commit the patches (there are two
more little classes).

> Maybe we should get Dom into the loop since he was the primary author of
> the zooming code.

That would be great. I kind of remember a document where layout issues
were detailed, was that just a dream or it does exists somewhere?

BTW, apart from the usual fixes, gtkmathview now has better support for
MathML tables, it provides an SVG backend for rendering MathML to SVG
and it has a more flexible API for cursors and, more generally, document
decorations. I've also started to cooperate with another australian guy
for writing a wysiwyg editor based on gtkmathview and the code might
come very handy for us too.

Cheers
--luca
Received on Tue May 17 06:18:19 2005