[wxPython-users] Display of equations?

[Christopher Barker]

Anthony M. Floyd wrote:
> What's the "best" way to display equations in wxPython?

nothing fabulous, unfortunately.

>  Our app uses
> matplotlib so I recognize that I could embed an empty plot and use
> MathTeX to display the equation, but that doesn't seem very elegant.
> Does anyone know of a library that will render MathML or MathTex to
> something that wx.Image can handle?

why not do what MPL does -- run the TeX trough tex and dvipng, then 
render that.

What would be even better is to make a dvi driver for wx. I think 
someone was working on a dvi driver for MPL -- maybe you could make use 
of their code. The trickiest part would be fonts -- you'd need get 
TrueType versions of the TeX fonts installed, so that wx could use them.

-Chris




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