Re: commit: Start of Math support in HEAD + Math Plan for 2.4

On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 09:52 +1100, msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
> My plan is write an opaque cross platform class that provides all the
> hooks we need to implement GtkMathView. The src/text/fmt/xp code will use
> this to draw the math runs.
>
> The base class will include a rather useless xp implementation that will
> draw ??? or something when it encoutners a MathML element.
>
> I will move all the useful code in src/af/math/xp to a plugin and provide
> a new method in the XAP_App class.
>
> GR_Abi_MathManager * XAP_App::getMathManager()
>
> If the plugin is not present this method will return the useless base class
> which will be used by fl_DocLayout and fp_MathRun.

Excuse the potential ignorance behind this question:

Couldn't this be made generic so that you could make plug-ins for any
type of custom element (random example: a dynamic chart embedded in a
document) rather than just math elements?

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