At 03:33 05/12/2003, Todd O'Bryan wrote:

How hard would it be to pull out the code from TeX that typesets small snippets of text (the primitives, I guess it would be) so that I could pass a string like "$x^2+y^2=25$" (or its MathML equivalent) and a starting point and have that small image be typeset correctly at that point. Is anyone aware of anybody doing something like this or leaning in that direction?

http://www.pragma-pod.com/ -> mathml processing (couple of years old but it still runs; not the latest version of context btw) In the context distribution is a more advance demo but that's too much off topic for this list. In context (roughly): \setupoutput[pdftex] \usemodule[mathml] % \usetypescript[palatino][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[palatino] % \usetypescript[palatino][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[times] % \usetypescript[fourier] [ec] \setupbodyfont[fourier] \starttext \startTEXpage \startXMLdata <math> <apply> <eq/> <apply> <plus/> <ci> x </ci> <apply> <power/> <apply> <sin/> <ci> x </ci> </apply> <cn> 2 </cn> </apply> <ci> y </ci> </apply> <ci> y </ci> </apply> </math> \stopXMLdata \stopTEXpage \stoptext Hans