I've written a plugin for Skencil that allows LaTeX text objects to be included and rendered, and am assessing the viability for doing something similar in Inkscape. I've seen the extensions description from last year, but none of the extension objects there really seem to meet the need. What I'd be looking for is creating a new type of object that retains its identity as an object so that the text can be edited again.
So I'm interested in whether there are examples of something conceptually similar having been done already. Basically, the mechanism I'm looking for would allow an extension/plugin to:
- create a new object that can be later modified as an object (including after being saved and opened again) - accept user input for parameters that can later be changed - run an external program when an update is made - import an external file to replace the current object curves (I'
Once those things can be done, having a latex object is fairly trivial. I'd appreciate if someone could point to where to look for examples of extensions that do these things under inkscape.