Re: Any kind of mimetex extension planned around?

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Yannick Warnier <ywarnier@beeznest.org> wrote: > Hello, > > I was looking for a mimetex/mathtex (latex interpreter, converts latex > syntax into GIF images) extension on pecl.php.net but apparently there's > nothing around for that purpose, so I just wanted to know if anybody > would possibly be working on something like that, and if anybody would > be interested. Basically, a good subset of mathematical expressions can > be dealt with by the MathML W3C standard (and that would be enough for > me) but it implies installing a plugin for all Internet Explorer > versions as they do not support SVG generation, and that is not > acceptable for my user base. I'm not sure to understand the relation between SVG and MathML, can you elaborate please? > The mimetex/mathtex software [1] is licensed under GNU/GPLv2 but the > current inconvenient is it is only running as a CGI in a web > environment, which makes it slightly inconvenient for me to provide to > "download, unzip, run" users of my application (also in GPLv2). GPL code or code using GPL'ed libraries can't be published via PECL. > I'd also like to know if there is some kind of interest for that in > PECL. A mathml to image renderer can be useful and not only for the browser (other formats can benefit from an image). Cheers, -- Pierre http://blog.thepimp.net | http://www.libgd.org