Re: [GSoC] Lasem instead of GMathView project

Hi,
Could you point me to where exactly the null size is returned? I'd
like to explore this bug more.

Cheers,
Abhishek

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Jean Bréfort
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>> >
>> >
>
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