Re: Latex plugin

[Alan Horkan <horkana tcd ie>]

As previously suggested the symbol font sounds like the best way to go
about this.  i think gcharmap (or gcharacter or something similar, why the
bastards could not just call it charmap <sigh>) would help you do this.

Maybe in future Dia could have some way to invoke the Character Map or
some sort of insert Symbol Dialog, I dunno, so many things to do, so
little time.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org

please check to see if there is already a feature request anything like
this in Dia and if not please file a bug

Although not actually of any direct help you might be interested in
http://lahelper.sourceforge.net/index.html

or maybe something could be done with
GtkMath

Abiword is looking at similar maths/latex issues
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/02/May/0369.html
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2321

i am sure other gnome projects are too, maybe you could find something Dia
could easily reuse?  Or encourage developers to get their programs to
integrate with Dia.

Sincerely
Alan Horkan

http://gnome.org/gnome-office/
http://abisource.com
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/

On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Ben V wrote:

> Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 18:30:34 GMT+1
> From: Ben V <ben.vins@caramail.com>
> Reply-To: dia-list@gnome.org
> To: dia-list@gnome.org
> Subject: Latex plugin
>
> Hi,
> Thinks for this very good software, that i nearly use
> everyday!!!
> But there is something i am a bit struglling with, is to
> write equation or at least greek symbols.
> Would it be possible, to have a plugin, which will allows to
> write some text and seen it interpreted in Latex?
> It would be nice to have, as in Matlab, a checkbox which
> allow you to seen the text written either as a text, or a Latex.
> This will therefore gives a great enhencement to dia,
> knowing how it is to write equation with latex.
> Anyway thinks again for your great work!
>
> Best regards
> ben
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