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Re: equation editor

 

Weird, it looks like dvisvgm mixes up unicode characters. Reported the bug
upstream here: https://github.com/mgieseki/dvisvgm/issues/52

Hope they can fix it, would make equations look prettier if we can use svg
instead of png.

Regards,

Jaap


On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Paulo van Breugel <p.vanbreugel@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Thanks. Unfortunately, the svg file doesn't look correct in my case (see
> attached the tex file, the png file originally created and the svg file
> after patching). I played around with the dvisgm options, but couldn't find
> a solution.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Paulo
>
>
>
>
> On 07-01-16 15:27, Jaap Karssenberg wrote:
>
> Indeed it works using dvisgm and it looks good, just change 3 lines in the
> plugin, see attached diff.
>
> When I have some time I will try to make it an option in the plugin.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jaap
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Paulo van Breugel <
> p.vanbreugel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Perhaps replacing the dvipng by dvisgm (http://dvisvgm.bplaced.net/)
>> could work?
>>
>>
>>
>> On 26-11-15 10:56, Paulo van Breugel wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, I had been looking in equationeditor.py file, but wasn't sure how
>> to add the -D option.
>>
>> The reason I want to be able to change the resolution is to make the
>> image suitable to be used in printed documents, which normally requires a
>> dpi of 300. But that would result in a very large image in the notebook. A
>> solution for me (but perhaps not so much for you) would be an option to
>> resize the image display in the notebook (like you can do with a normal
>> image). The option to use svg instead of png would be even better, perhaps
>> also for your user case?
>>
>>
>> On 26-11-15 10:28, wzhd wrote:
>>
>> I have been thinking about the same thing since I got a HiDPI screen.
>> Currently, I have only managed to make the images bigger, by passing the
>> option "-D 192" to the "dvipng" command. The modified version is here:
>> <https://github.com/wzhd/zim-plugin-equation-editor/commit/c3c42d0668ca8dcf69dc1d25d9450d81514d5524>
>> https://github.com/wzhd/zim-plugin-equation-editor/commit/c3c42d0668ca8dcf69dc1d25d9450d81514d5524
>>
>>
>> However this is not perfect, when I open the notebook on other computers,
>> the equations are too big.
>>
>> On 26 November 2015 at 00:29, Paulo van Breugel <
>> <p.vanbreugel@xxxxxxxxx>p.vanbreugel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jaap and other Zim devs,
>>>
>>> The 'insert equation' function is a great function, producing nice
>>> looking equations in Zim. However, the resolution of the image (png file)
>>> that is generated by the addon is fairly low. Is there a way to change the
>>> resolution of the image? Or even better, would it be possible to add the
>>> option to store the on-the-fly generaged image as svg instead of png? This
>>> would provide in perfectly scalable solution for any document.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> Paulo
>>>
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