[Zope] Anyone Working on an Equation Display Mechanism for Zope?

[Robin Becker]

In article <199909192011.PAA08160@rampart.timecastle.net>, Jeff Rush
<jrush@timecastle.net> writes
>Is anyone developing a way to display mathematical equations
>on a Zope-base web site?  I'm wishing for something along the
>lines of an eqn->troff->ghostscript->gif_tile pipeline.  It'd be
>neat if there were a ZEquation product that took a blob of
>equation text and when used in a link, provided a GIF tile
>of the equation neatly laid out.
>
>I can't expect the Zope engine to fork off a whole series
>of special tools in a timely fashion, so maybe a background
>process could scan the ZODB and insert the GIFs in some
>form of folder cache, using the timestamp of the ZEquation
>instance and a timestamp on the GIF cached item.
>
>Ideas?  An easier way?
>
>-Jeff Rush
>
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I have got all the gif/png graphical stuff working for python, but
equations/symbols is a real problem. legality for gif is still a
problem. What's wrong with ezmath?
-- 
Robin Becker