[texhax] Incorporating TeX into Custom-made Programs

[William Adams]

On Feb 16, 2006, at 1:07 AM, Daniel Wyckoff wrote:

> I'm devoting the rest of my life to making a very complicated  
> educational program that runs through abstract mathematical proofs  
> and displays visual aids.  Probably naively, I'm planning to write  
> it in C and use OpenGL.  Anyway, I need a way for the program to  
> display mathematical symbols along with visualizations of the  
> mathematical structures.  So, I need a way to display math symbols  
> graphically on the screen.  I thought that somebody would have  
> already written some library to achieve this, but I was wrong or  
> just not thorough enough.  How do you suggest that I incorporate  
> TeX symbols into a graphical C program?

All the programs I'm aware of which do this sort of thing generate a  
PostScript (or .pdf) representation and use Display PostScript (or  
a .pdf imaging library) to draw the glyphs on-screen.

I'd suspect that you'd find something of what you want in ``dvichop''  
and David Kastrup's Instant Preview.

or just use dvisvg (http://dvisvg.sourceforge.net/) and a library for  
displaying SVG graphics.

But it's early, and I've quit drinking coffee and haven't had my  
third cuppa tea this morning, so this is probably (certainly)  
incomplete....

William

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William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications



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