On 24 nov. 05, at 22:59, Colin Marquardt wrote:
jiho <jo.irisson@...400...> writes:
9/ Latex typesetting would be awesome (typesetting not graphical editing which seems impossible).
I know it's not answering your requirement, but let me mention that someone reported using the Latin Modern fonts (http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/fonts/lm/fonts/type1/public/lm/) in Inkscape to match the Computer Modern font he was using for the main text (where the drawings were imported).
In fact I already have latex fonts (both serif, sans serif and symbols) available in ttf format. The problem is really to typeset equations/formulas rather than using consistent fonts (which is important indeed but which can be achieved without the need of latex itself).
I thought it could be done with a simple extension (as one feature request mention): calling latex on a text box, getting resulting ps, pstoedit it to svg and import the svg... but pstoedit traces the fonts and it looks terrible. I remember a linux vector editor which could typeset text boxes with pdflatex and include the pdf... but I cannot remember the name and can't find it (and it's not dia, sketch, karbon or sodipodi. xfig can do this but it was an other one).
Hmm, possibly metagraf? http://w3.mecanica.upm.es/metapost/ metagraf.php
nope. The software I cannot remember was up few years ago. It might well be a dead project by now... (It was in Mandrake 7 or 8).
JiHO --- Windows, c'est un peu comme le beaujolais nouveau : a chaque nouvelle cuvee on sait que ce sera degueulasse, mais on en prend quand meme par masochisme. --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/