Re: [GSoC] Lasem instead of GMathView project

OK, a bit more investigation shows that it might actually be an abiword
bug. Looks like we return a nul size for these characters.

Jean

Le vendredi 12 avril 2013 à 02:08 +0100, Abhishek Ravi a écrit :
> It isn't just Omega, almost all the greek alphabets do not work.
> 
> I tried to see what the problem was, and as Jean said the Mathml
> string is generated correctly and loaded into mathview in
> fp_mathview.cpp.
> 
> However, I'm not sure how the following projects work-
> http://numerator.sourceforge.net/first_rendering.php
> http://mathshield.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html
> 
> They render Greek alphabets correctly, and the GtkMathView website
> lists them as projects using GtkMathView.
> 
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Jean Bréfort <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The bug seems to belong to gtkmathview. If it was a conversion issue, we
> > would get an error message. I tested with lasem, and lasem actually
> > displays the character (lasem also use itex2mml, so it reinforces the
> > idea that the issue comes from from gtkmathview).
> >
> > One other thing, in the debug trace, I'm getting:
> >
> > DEBUG: MATH ML string is...
> >  <math xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML'
> > display='block'><mi>&#x003A9;</mi></math>
> >
> > which looks correct.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure that this can't be fixed without patching gtkmathview.
> > Let's go to lasem ;-)
> >
> > Jean
> >
> > Le jeudi 11 avril 2013 à 16:34 +1000, Martin Sevior a écrit :
> >> Hi Abhishek,
> >>
> >> Have a look at bug:
> >>
> >> http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13437
> >>
> >> "Insert equation from Latex" unable to recognise \Omega
> >>
> >> I don't know if the bug is in  gtkmathview or in itex=> mathml
> >> conversion. If the latter then fixing this bug now will also fix it
> >> for your project.
> >>
> >> If you can isolate which system is responsible for the bug is would be
> >> a nice step forward.
> >> BTW This bug has caused me quite a bit of grief but I haven't had time
> >> to fix it :-(
> >>
> >> Martin
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 11 April 2013 06:43, Abhishek Ravi <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hello,
> >> > I am Abhishek, a student at the National University of Singapore
> >> > majoring in computer engineering. I am interested in applying for GSoc
> >> > 2013 with Abiword, and this particular project looks interesting.
> >> >
> >> > I have already built Abiword on my PC and have successfully completed
> >> > the additional requirements to apply (Debug message on inserting
> >> > picture).
> >> >
> >> > I would like to familiarize myself with the code base better. Could
> >> > you recommend a simple bug which I can work on to start off?
> >> >
> >> > Cheers,
> >> > Abhishek
> >
> >