Re: [GTKMathView] ANN: gtkmathview 0.5.1, gtkmathview-bonobo 0.0.1

From: msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au
Date: Wed Sep 17 2003 - 06:16:38 EDT

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    > Dear friends and colleagues,
    >
    > I'm pleased to announce two releases at once:
    >
    > *** gtkmathview 0.5.1
    >
    > This is a minor update of 0.5.0 (the GTK2 port of gtkmathview) with some
    > small changes in the API. Given that the 0.5.x series is very young, I
    > preferred not to change the minor number again. Nobody should suffer
    > serious problems anyway because of this change, as I suspect those APIs
    > were never used ;-)
    >
    > *** gtkmathview-bonobo 0.0.1
    >
    > This is the big news. We now have a Bonobo Control around GtkMathView
    > for embedding the widget inside Bonobo applications. Special thanks to
    > Pouria Masoudi for working on this in the last couple of months.
    > Although the Control is not complete, it is already usable. I enjoy
    > particularly using it together with mozilla-bonobo and seeing
    > gtkmathview embedded in Mozilla, Galeon, or Epiphany displaying large
    > MathML formulas that the native Gecko's rendering engine would take ages
    > to render (actually, some formulas that take 3 or 4 seconds to render in
    > GtkMathView make Mozilla crash after nearly 30 min of hard
    > computation...). If you want to try this, beware that the CVS version of
    > mozilla-bonobo is required.
    >
    > More info can be found on http://helm.cs.unibo.it/gtkmathview-bonobo/.
    >
    > We plan to add lots of new features in the future and to make the
    > Control (and the underlying widget) more appealing. Of course feedback
    > and volunteers are welcome. If you have nice use-cases, please let us
    > know!
    >

    Woo Hoo!

    Thanks Luca and Pouria :-)

    I'll make sure this is supported in AbiWord-2.2

    Cheers

    Martin

    PS. Make sure you make some screen shots and post this news to
    gnome-desktop.org

    > Enjoy,
    > -- luca
    >
    >
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