Re: [Dvipng] Static/dynamic library for dvipng?

[Jan-Åke Larsson]

Alex skrev:
> I am however curious as to how preview-latex manages to accomplish the
> task of on-the-fly LaTeX rendering. Since my overall goal is to create
> an on-the-fly TeX renderer to integrate into a .NET/C# application, I
> would probably want to mimic much of the approach. Unfortunately, there
> seems to be minimal information on the workings of preview-latex, and I
> suspect the only way to figure out exactly what goes on will be to dig
> through the source. If you could however describe the approach in brief,
> or point me to a resource, it would be much appreciated.

The preview-latex package is based on preview.sty, a package which takes 
out snippets like equations and other things and produces a DVI with 
just these, one on each page. dvipng is then used to render all these 
pages in a batch, and this saves much of the overhead you mentioned. One 
run of latex/dvipng for each time the images are to be updated.

preview.sty has a manual, I dont remember how it is accessed just now, 
but 'texdoc preview' should do the trick. Ask again if you need more help.

/JÅ