Subject: Re: equation editor non-image importing
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 13 2001 - 20:53:46 CST
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 09:44:53PM -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
> On 14 Feb 2001 13:19:03 +1100, Martin Sevior wrote:
> > Hi Seth,
> > I would love equation editor support. I have a plan to implement
> > this eventually but it will take some time (months at least). It will take
> > less time others can help :-)
> >
> > I *THINK* that abi could display the image of the equation that MS Word
> > produces witht he help of some compiler options in wv.
>
> something like changing the configure string to including wv linking in
> zlib support?
> ie: ./configure --with-zlib=(zlib path here)
>
> the error message that came out when I tried to import a doc with a
> word2k equation in it was that it couldn't access the wmf output of the
> formula w/o zlib in wv for compressed wmf support.
>
> seems like the with-zlib support added into
> [abitree]/src/config/require/unix/Makefile - around line 121 or so might
> make that work - If I get a chance I'll test that before long.
>
> if that works then I'd hope it would be the default -b/c displaying
> those things would be a MAJOR benefit.
>
> heck displaying ALL compressed wmf objects would be nice.
Well, the major problem with this is that we don't build libwmf, which
is naturally neccessary for this. In order to do that, we'd have to
add YAPM (yet another peer module). Don't know how people will feel
about that.
People?
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