Re: Minimals and dvipng

[Jean Magnan de Bornier <jm.bornier@free.fr>]

Le 29 janvier à 11:54:31 Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> écrit notamment:

| On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
| > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote:
| >>
| >> I wish I could use dvipng whenever I need to.
| >
| > So you are plannig to release/improve the emacs module and document it for Maps?
| >
| > I'll take a look at the end of the week to see if we can make it work
| > with minimals.
>
| Hello Jean,
>
| You need exactly (or at least) two things to make dvipng work:
| - dvipng binary
| - fonts/map/dvips/updmap/ps2pk.map
>
| I can add that to minimals, just a few questions below ...
| It's just that one day it might be splitted (together with dvips &
| different font tools that almost nobody uses) into some additional
| package that one needs to install separately (with additional
| arguments).
>
>
| We don't have updmap, so ps2pk needs to be either:
| a) prepared semi-manually with fonts that minimals ship
| b) taken from TeX Live with both fonts that minimals have and those
| that are not shipped at all

Hello Mojka,
Thank you for taking from your time to look at that!

| How many exotic fonts do you usually need?

Well nothing really exotic: i just want to use context to ultimately create png
images of math formulas to be shown as images on websites... 

| Does ps2pk require some special syntax? (reading
| http://ftp.univie.ac.at/packages/tex/dviware/dvipng/fontmap.c and still
| asking stupid questions ...)
>
No idea, I'm afraid (and no more ideas about the rest  :-(  )!

>
| There's only one thing I wonder about: [x]dvipdfmx uses the map file
| that are specified in dvi (xdv) specials.
| - How does dvips know which map files to use? / Is there some
| "quasi-standard" way to secify map files in dvi?
| - Would it make sense (in long term) to ask the author of dvipng to
| honour the map files specified in dvi file instead of requiring ps2pk
| to be unconditionally present?
| - not to be taken seriously: (Wouldn't it be nice if pdftex/luatex was
| able to generate PNGs out of the box? :) :) :)
>
| (Well, I know, ConTeXt is a bit different from LaTeX with respect to
| map files ...)

Thanks,
-- 
Jean
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