Sphinx contains one way to do this in its new "pngmath" extension. It
uses the LaTeX package "preview" which does all of this magic
internally. And I believe it's a little more general. If I recall, the
approach you're taking won't work with some LaTeX constructs such as:
\begin{align}
x & = 2
y & = 2
\end{align}
Plus, Sphinx is BSD-licensed, so it should be fine to copy-and-paste
whatever code is necessary.
Of course, latex-preview is required to be installed, but I think it's a
pretty common package.
See here:
http://svn.python.org/projects/doctools/trunk/sphinx/ext/pngmath.py
Cheers,
Mike
Jae-Joon Lee wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 4:18 PM, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Jae-Joon Lee <lee...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> First of all, I borrowed this idea from the PyX which is in GPL.
>>> Although there is little of copying, other than the basic idea, I'm
>>> not 100% sure if this could be BSD-compatible.
>>>
>> I think it is fine to borrow the idea; what we need to do is a clean
>> room implementation with no copying. You can best answer that, so if
>> you tell us your patch is cleanly implemented, we can accept it.
>>
>> JDH
>>
>>
>
> Thanks for the response.
>
> Well, the only part I borrowed from PyX is TeX related commands they
> use (there is not much of implementation as far as TeX-related code is
> concerned). From their code, I learned the meaning and usage of the
> following TeX commands
>
> \newbox
> \setbox
> \immediate\write16
>
> And I used the same TeX commands in my code.
> But I personally think this is not a (code) copy.
>
> Other than this, the code is clean.
> Regards,
>
> -JJ
>
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