Hello,
I was annoyed that the LaTeX equation insert mechanism didn't provide a way to control the size of the equation. This makes it needlessly difficult to match the size of the text in the body of a LaTeX document. So I modified that extension. Attached is a revised version that:
(a) Allows scaling by a specified factor; (b) Allows typesetting non-equations; (c) Allows customizing the preamble to the LaTeX document; (d) Properly scales the input using the 'viewBox' attribute, rather than relying on the structure of the document; and (e) Uses pdf2svg ( http://www.cityinthesky.co.uk/pdf2svg.html ) rather than pstoedit.
On point (e), pdf2svg seemed more reliable to me, though YMMV. I can easily switch it back to pstoedit, although it's harder to control just where the resulting formula ends up.
For point (c), I was annoyed by the very limited UI options: it seems hard to either embed newlines in the preamble or give a sufficiently large input area. Is there any hope of fixing this?
I could, I guess, have different input boxes for different lines, but that's really horrendously clunky.
Any comments are welcome. Of course I'd like to see a version of this in the next release, if possible.
Best, Dylan Thurston Assistant Professor, Barnard College