In article <199909192011.PAA08160@rampart.timecastle.net>, Jeff Rush <jrush@timecastle.net> writes
Is anyone developing a way to display mathematical equations on a Zope-base web site? I'm wishing for something along the lines of an eqn->troff->ghostscript->gif_tile pipeline. It'd be neat if there were a ZEquation product that took a blob of equation text and when used in a link, provided a GIF tile of the equation neatly laid out.
I can't expect the Zope engine to fork off a whole series of special tools in a timely fashion, so maybe a background process could scan the ZODB and insert the GIFs in some form of folder cache, using the timestamp of the ZEquation instance and a timestamp on the GIF cached item.
Ideas? An easier way?
-Jeff Rush
... I have got all the gif/png graphical stuff working for python, but equations/symbols is a real problem. legality for gif is still a problem. What's wrong with ezmath? -- Robin Becker