On Sat, 31 Aug 2002 18:16:30 +0100 (IST), Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Ben V wrote: > > > > But there is something i am a bit struglling with, is to > > write equation or at least greek symbols. > > Would it be possible, to have a plugin, which will allows to > > write some text and seen it interpreted in Latex? > As previously suggested the symbol font sounds like the best way to go > about this. i think gcharmap (or gcharacter or something similar, why > the bastards could not just call it charmap <sigh>) would help you do > this. > > Maybe in future Dia could have some way to invoke the Character Map or > some sort of insert Symbol Dialog, I dunno, so many things to do, so > little time. I'm sure there are many details I don't understand, but two thoughts: 1. I doubt the symbol font is of much use to Ben V. I don't think the quadratic formula or much of Chapter 1 from a caluculus text could be expressed with a symbol font. 2. It seems to me that MathML might be a better fit with Dia than Latex. MathML is XML and could be embedded in Dia diagrams much the way SVG is. DSSSL stylesheets (http://www.nag.co.uk/projects/OpenMath/mml-files/) render it to TeX and others. There is also an XSLT (http://www.raleigh.ru/MathML/mmltex/index.php?lang=en). GtkMathView (http://www.cs.unibo.it/helm/mml-widget/) is a MathML viewing widget, and might be a place to start. HTH. --jkl _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
