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

[Darren D. <dd...@co...>]

On Monday 24 April 2006 10:48, Jouni K Seppanen wrote:
> 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.

Thanks Jouni, I was not aware of this document. There are some other packages 
in dviware that could serve as useful examples, like dvitops (there are a lot 
of GPL'd packages too, like dvisvgm and dvipdfmx. Too bad.)