Lasem.jl is a Julia package that interfaces to the Lasem library, which provides rendering of SVG and MathML using Pango/Cairo as backends. Rendering of (La)TeX formulas is supported via itex2mml.
The Lasem library has to be installed manually. It can be obtained from git.gnome.org
or github. Building the library requires
gobject, glib, gio, gdk-pixbuf, gdk, cairo, pangocairo, libxml, bison, flex.
Additionally, the fonts cmr10, cmmi10, cmex10 and cmsy10 should be available,
i.e. known to fontconfig.
Lasem.jl can then be installed via
Pkg.clone("git://github.com/acroy/Lasem.jl.git")As a simple application of Lasem, the examples directory contains
viewers of SVGs, files with MathML and iTeX expressions: view_svg
takes a filename as input, while view_tex accepts a LaTeXString. Both
require Tk.jl to be installed and will open a window showing the
rendering result. Resizing or other interactions are currently not supported.
A more experimental application is rendering of LaTeX labels in Winston.
In the directory winston there are two variants: winston-itex.jl and
winston-latex.jl. Both replace the Winston text-rendering functions; the
first one uses itex2mml, while the latter uses pdflatex and pdf2svg
to render LaTeXStrings. This functionality is far from complete and any comments
or PRs are very welcome.