Re: Text properties and FTGL

[John W. Eaton]

On 29-Oct-2008, John Swensen wrote:

| I think that small subset should also have \dot, \ddot, \hat, \tilde,  
| and maybe a couple others, since these get used quite frequently.

And someone else will of course want \int and \sum and \begin{array}
and ...  So I think it would be best to simply make it possible to use
all of TeX, interpreted by TeX itself rather than some kluge.

| Would you be averse to having the two options available at compile  
| time?  That way, for those with systems where LaTeX and libpoppler are  
| available (whether gtk or QT), we could compile in the support for the  
| full interpreter?

That adds maintenance overhead.  I'd say just require TeX for TeX
markup, and if that is not available, then skip the transformation of
the TeX parts.

jwe