[Paraview] greek letters

[David Thompson]

> I would change that a bit. The ability to use Latex is not the main
> issue here. Rather, it is the ability to use symbols and other unicode
> characters as well as (possibly) the ability to typeset equations.
> Whether this is entered as Latex or MathML or something else is more
> of an implementation detail, isn't it?

Actually, I believe there are 3 separate issues, but they are all  
important: MathML is horribly tedious to type in and GUI equation  
editors are frustratingly slow if you know LaTeX so please don't  
discount human interaction. The issues are:

1. Rendering of character glyphs other than 7-bit ASCII
2. Lay out and rendering of mathematical equations (and possibly other  
formatted text like tables)
3. Easy input of equations (and other text for fancy layout).

Also, Berk didn't say it, but at least in VTK you can now use a Qt  
renderer that will draw any Unicode string so #1 above is done but not  
taken advantage of in ParaView. However, this does have the  
disadvantage of requiring Qt on the server side since I believe labels  
are drawn by all the processes running pvserver.

	Just my 2 cents,
	David


> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Ricardo Reis<rreis at aero.ist.utl.pt>  
> wrote:
>> On Mon, 7 Sep 2009, Berk Geveci wrote:
>>
>>> I'd suggest putting this in paraview.uservoice.com. I would be
>>> interested to see how many people are interested in this feature.
>>
>> Added:
>>
>> http://paraview.uservoice.com/pages/11350-general/suggestions/309511-add-ability-to-use-latex-in-text-and-axis-text?ref=title
>>
>> please vote ;)
>>
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>>
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