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

[Jouni K S. <jk...@ik...>]

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

> The basic approach is to extract the font layout information from the 
> dvi files. LaTeX could be the only dependency.

Great! Another possibly useful reference is

http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/dviware/driv-standard/level-0/dvistd0.pdf

and the documents in driv-standard/papers. dvi is apparently pretty
difficult to parse, as you have to implement a bytecode interpreter to
keep track of the state.

-- 
Jouni