Re: GSoC project - LaTeX/TeX

[Ben Abbott]

On Jun 26, 2013, at 9:42 PM, Andrej Lojdl wrote:

> After detailed test of latex ( converting .tex -> .dvi ) and dvipng ( 
> converting .dvi -> .png ), I come to the following conclusions:
> 
> - Every .tex document containing formulas needs some basic content. If I 
> would have to specify some content that would be: ( attached default .tex 
> file )
> 
> - In LaTeX exist two mathematical environments asmmath and mathtools . First 
> is the standard part of latex, where second need mh bundle 
> (http://www.ctan.org/pkg/mh). So maybe it's better to use asmmath. 
> 
> - After making .dvi file, we could convert it to .png using dvipng. Or ( for 
> vector graphics ) dvips. To get .eps file user have to type:
> latex default.tex  
> dvips default.dvi -E -o default.eps
> 
> From wikipedia: "At minimum, an EPS file contains a BoundingBox DSC comment, 
> describing the rectangle containing the image described by the EPS file. 
> Applications can use this information to lay out the page, even if they are 
> unable to directly render the PostScript inside."
> 
> I'm not sure if this feature could help us with place holders in final image. 
> 
> --
> Andrej 
> 
> 
> <default.tex>

To suppress the page number, you can add "\pagestyle{empty}" to your latex file.

Ben