Re: Text properties and FTGL

[Bill Denney]

John Swensen wrote:
> Thanks for pointing these out.  I don't know what they are not doing
> in mathTeX that I must be doing in my system calls, but mathTeX is
> significantly faster.  Since it is GPL and Octave is GPL I will
> probably actually compile this into my Octave tests and render
> straight to the openGL texture, rather than have it render to a file
> and then read it back in.  I think a time of ~0.1 seconds per LaTeX
> string and appropriate caching of the results is acceptable.

Just a thought, but could you render each result on a different page in
the LaTeX output and make it just ~0.1 sec total instead?

Have a good day,

Bill