evan_tech -- inline tex

05:42 pm, 18 May 06

inline tex

A neat hack from a friend:
inline LaTeX in HTML. (Uses data: URLs, but who do you really talk to that uses IE anyway, right?)

I'd add this to LogJam if working on LogJam didn't feel so much like digging a well with a trowel.

lithiana oh, so that's why you never implement my feature requests ;-P

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theorb	Minor request: take the given example, run it though the program, and stick it in the bottom of the page. (Yeah, I know, not your code, but no doubt Four will read this entry, and he hasn't written one of his own where it'd be ontopic.)
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xaosenkosmos	One of the things that's been on the back of my mind for a while is a rewrite of logjam in ruby. You've got almost all the pieces in place, i just haven't had the motivation to fight glade/gtk to make it happen.
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evan	GTK's really not so bad! What's the problem you're having, maybe I can help?
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xaosenkosmos	The sheer tedium of writing user interface code. (When it comes to GUIs, i really am a Visual Basic kind of guy =)
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evan	LogJam's probably a bad program to be writing then: the LJ parts are done, and the rest is all UI. ("When an item in the list is selected, ungray the 'remove' button. When no item is selected, gray the 'remove' button." And on, and on.)
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evan Though now that I type that, I note that VB doesn't really help you there.
The actual widget layout is a relatively small fraction of the LogJam code.

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mart

XUL has a handy feature for dealing with that kind of thing. I can't remember the specifics now, but essentially you can bind controls to some abstract global state object so that, for example, when you turn on a check item on the menu the corresponding toolbar button also turns on without having to write any code. I can't remember enough about it to say whether it helps in the case you're describing, but it's not difficult to imagine how to extend the principle to cover that.

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lithiana	oh, so that's why you never implement my feature requests ;-P
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evan	Though now that I type that, I note that VB doesn't really help you there. The actual widget layout is a relatively small fraction of the LogJam code.
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