Thanks for the suggestions. The main obstacle will be integration with LaTeX on different platforms, and a library which can talk to the engine on different LaTeX distributions and provide an interface which can render code to PDF or postscript with information about text baselines/alignment would be useful for lots of things. It would also be nice to be able to include SVG documents directly in LaTeX.
http://svgkit.sourceforge.net/SVGLaTeX.html renders a subset of LaTeX to SVG fragments but the format needs to include information about text baselines.
Andrew
On 27/03/2008, Bill Baxter <wbaxter@...400...> wrote:
What I'd find really useful would be something like TexPoint for Inkscape (http://texpoint.necula.org/index.html). That's a plugin for PowerPoint that lets you type in some LaTeX in a dialog, and then renders it to your choice of format (emf,png,etc) by invoking LaTeX and embeds the result it in your PowerPoint presentation. After that you can edit the LaTeX that created the object by double-clicking it.
TeXPoint comes with a bunch of ttf fonts that match LaTeX's fonts, which it also uses to allow a subset of LaTeX to be rendered as regular text in PowerPoint.
--bb
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Richard Henwood <r.henwood@...1664...> wrote:
Andrew Lewis wrote:
Hi all,
I would be grateful for feedback on this GSoC project idea which I would like to do. It should be reasonably orthogonal to the Inkscape core so it shouldn't interfere with refactoring. I haven't contributed to Inkscape before, but I did a GSoC project last year for BBC R&D (on Dirac motion estimation/mode decision).
Name: Andrew Lewis (1st year PhD Student, University of Cambridge, UK)
Abstract:
Inkscape is an ideal tool for producing the types of diagrams present in academic papers, but various features could be added to make it ideal for tool-chains which use LaTeX [1] to typeset documents.
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I think your proposal is a great idea, which I have had need for before.
Have you considered an implementation which involves changing the 'pstricks' export filter to _not_ export text as paths?
You may also want to have a look at an extension I recently wrote: http://richard.henwood.googlepages.com/inkscapelatexextension
r,
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