Re: Latex interpreter via Mathjax + Qt

[Michael Godfrey]

On 01/12/2016 11:58 AM, George Apostolopoulos wrote:
> For the implementation the Qt graphics capabilities can be used.
> It is true what Panxto writes, that mathjax will convert latex to an svg
> image. However, Qt can render the svg through the QSvgRenderer class
> (http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/qsvgrenderer.html) which is able to draw on a
> QGLWidget. Thus, the rest of the toolchain would remain intact (gl2ps
> etc) Of course, this will only be possible when using the qt
> graphics_toolkit in octave.
>
> Maybe a test of qt+mathjax+openGL+gl2ps would be in order to see if all
> this is possible.
This seems to be a good plan. There is an intention to "merge"
the fltk and qt toolkits in any case, so there is no problem,
I think, in implementing this in the qt toolkit. The
qt+mathjax+openGL+gl2ps test would be a good start.

Michael