On 16.06.2009, at 16:11, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:
On Tuesday 16 June 2009 04:04:32 pm Bert Freudenberg wrote:
hence you cannot edit a LatexMorph someone else sent you even if you have Latex installed.
LatexMorph serves only as a tool to convert textual LaTeX code into a graphic. One can always ship this code as TextMorph across projects. I can do: myLatexMorph contents: importedLatexMorph contents. myLatexMorph openInHand.
Once Etoys gets a good typesetter plugin, OSProcess may no longer be required. Any takers?
Pango is supposed to be pretty good for regular text paragraphs. Doesn't layout formulas of course.
Or are you running in Sugar on the XO under Rainbow?
No. Etoys is run off a USB flash chip on off-the-shelf machines with Linux or Windows (machines borrowed from other local community projects).
The proper way would have been to make a very simple custom plugin that has just a single primitive invoking a shell script doing the LaTeX processing. That way it could not be misused for anything else - OSProcess is just too mighty a tool for this specific purpose. And it would be easily customizable, too, by editing the shell script.
- Bert -