On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 02:03:09PM -0400, Manoj Rajagopalan wrote:
> Thanks, Richard and Vincent.
>
> For a long time I've wished for a LaTeX rendering widget in Qt. I do a
> lot of scientific computing and I'd like my GUI's to contain label
> widgets that display greek symbols etc. and what better way to do this
> than to have a constructor that interprets a subset of latex commands.
> Eg:
>
> QLaTeXLabel *label = new QLaTeXLabel(this, QString("\frac{E}
> {\hbar\omega}"));
>
> Someone probably raised this issue a while ago on the LyX list and one
> of the developers replied that separating the lyx code to this would
> be a huge amount of work.
Just rendering (i.e. no editing) is pretty straight forward. I would be
surprised if it is more than two days of work starting from LyX sources.
Re-creating a stand-alone "editor" is more likely a magnitude more.
Andre'
