On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Pearu Peterson wrote:

Dear Ka-Ping Yee,

I am writing a GiNaC (www.ginac.de) interface to Python and by now I have wrapped most of the GiNaC library. Now I looking for (preferably GPL,LGPL) tools that can render mathematical formulae to be displayed on text screens. I just learned about the Minse and it seems to me that it does exactly what is needed in PyGiNaC.

Hi! This sounds like a pretty neat project. It would be cool if my MINSE work could help you in this endeavour.

I am writing to you to ask if you are interested in sharing Minse code in this project? Only the part that renders a formula to a text is needed.

I have put up a preliminary source distribution on my home page (http://www.lfw.org/ping/). It is not documented but i hope you will be able to find your way around it. Download both .tar.gz archives; each one unpacks separately. The "glyphd" archive is the renderer; run "make" there and try ./textren text.cfg lat1 5 It will accept typesetting expressions such as @bar(a + b,@rad(3)) The "minse" archive is the stylesheet engine. It will accept MINSE expressions and turn them into typesetting expressions for the rendering machinery. Try running ./ftext in that directory and typing in MINSE expressions, e.g. skuld[1029]% ./ftext =: a + b -> a + b =: a/b -> a --- b =: 'lim((f(x+h)-f(x))/h, h .approach 0) -> f(x + h) - f(x) lim ----------------- h -> 0 h -- ?!ng I never dreamt that i would get to be The creature that i always meant to be But i thought, in spite of dreams, You'd be sitting somewhere here with me.