Rock Star wrote:
I don't know what one assumes by "LaTeX formula input", but there already is a working extension that does this in Inkscape (eqtexsvg.py). At least I'm happily using it on Windows. You can find it under Effects::Render:: LaTeX formula. However, it does have few dependencies (latex, dvips and pstoedit), but it does what it's suppose to do.
I missed it, I think it will be really useful to me. Thanks for pointing out the existence of this effect.
If there's is some help, Scribus development versions also include rendering of (La)TeX code. If one wants to remove all the dependencis (so that you shouldn't have (La)TeX installed at all), maybe someone from matplotlib ( http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/) could help since that library has some kind of internal rendering of TeX code.
We should definitely not try to render (La)TeX ourselves. Firstly, someone who knows TeX probably has it installed, so the dependency isn't an unreasonable one. Secondly, our code will invariably produce output of lower quality, because most of TeX's spacing rules were bummed to perfection - doing the same with Inkscape is going to take a lot of time. Thirdly, it's unnecessary duplication of effort.
Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński