Re: [matplotlib-devel] doing tex support the right way

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Darren" == Darren Dale <dd...@co...> writes:

    Darren> I also discovered that xdvi is OSS compliant, and have
    Darren> started studying that source code as well. I only started
    Darren> writing code to read the dvi information, but I post here
    Darren> to allow people to comment if they are so inclined, and to
    Darren> share the dvitype example with anyone who is interested. I
    Darren> have compiled the tex file, converted it to pdf, and
    Darren> posted the result at
    Darren> http://staff.chess.cornell.edu/~dale/matplotlib/dvitype.pdf.

This is very good stuff Darren -- it would be really nice to have a
python interface to dvi files under a BSD compatible license.
matplotlib sitting on top of my two favorite runtimes: python and TeX.

I think it is a shame that a lot tools built on top of TeX (web2c,
pyx, ...) have a more restrictive license than TeX itself, so this
would be a very useful piece of code.

JDH