On Sep 26, 2006, at 9:46 AM, Ivan Krstić wrote:
Fredrik Johansson wrote:
Hopefully texvc will be replaced by Blahtex (http:// www.blahtex.org/). Please help bug David Harvey to continue working on it :-)
It's never been a problem of David not wanting to continue to work on it, but a problem of the developers still not finding time to look at enabling blahtex on WM sites, even after months of requests for review by a number of people. Developers tend to be over-constrained and focus on keeping the site running, which causes non-critical enhancements to fall by the wayside more often than not.
Uwe Brauer wrote:
But blahtex uses mathml exclusively no?
No, it should do PNG export any day now (maybe already does -- David?).
Blahtex has always done PNG export. It's much faster than texvc because it uses dvipng instead of the slower imagemagick/dvips pipeline. It also knows how to get vertical alignment of the PNGs correct (aligning the baseline), which does wonders for the final visual quality. And it knows plenty of tex/latex/amslatex commands that texvc doesn't know. And it can do Cyrillic and Japanese (these were test cases for more general multi-script support). So I think its PNG support is *much* better than that of texvc.
I am not planning on maintaining the C++ version of blahtex any more. I am about halfway through a port to Python. It will be almost 100% compatible in terms of command line input/output, so it should be a drop-in replacement for the C++ version.
However, I haven't been working seriously on blahtex for a while now. I have other projects going on, and a life as well. It's encouraging to me to hear a few people showing some interest, perhaps this will make me spend more time on it again :-)
David