James, thank you very much for the answer. I'll check your suggestions.<br><br>My intention is to produce interactive Flash/ActionScript applications for teaching mathematics and physics. Sometimes I need to write some equations. When the symbols are static I usually use LaTeX and convert them to curves, but when I need to write "dynamic" expressions... that is quite a problem!<br>
<br>So I think of using the TeX font metrics files to draw each symbol. Yeah, I know... too much work, but this was my first thought. Alternatively, I think of using XeTeX fonts, whose format (OpenType, TrueType ...?) may be easily accessed.<br>
<br>As you can see, I'm not very sure how to start... But thanks again for this first step.<br>[]s<br>Ivan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:26, James Quirk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jjq@galcit.caltech.edu">jjq@galcit.caltech.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Ivan,<br>
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On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Ivan Ramos Pagnossin wrote:<br>
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> Hi there. I'm wondering if it is possible to use TeX/LaTeX/XeLaTeX/... fonts<br>
> in ActionScript/Flash programs. Can anyone give me a hint to start?<br>
> Thanks<br>
> Ivan<br>
</div></div>Can you give some indication of what it is you're wanting to do? If you're<br>
just wanting to add some equations to a SWF then you can use pdftex to<br>
produce a PDF which is then converted to a SWF using pdf2swf from<br>
swftools, which can then be sucked into another SWF as normal.<br>
<br>
On the subject of (La)TeX with Flash, you might be interested in:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.amrita-cfd.org/wip/jfk-9-12-1962.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.amrita-cfd.org/wip/jfk-9-12-1962.pdf</a><br>
<br>
it's still very much work in progress, and so not really fit for public<br>
consumption. But it shows how it's possible to synchronize a LaTeX<br>
document with a YouTube video. It also includes an interactive source code<br>
browser that at shows how the was programmed. The code browser currently<br>
has some bugs that limit its usefullness, especially in the syntax<br>
highlighting. Nevertheless it gives some idea of (La)TeX+FLASH is an<br>
interesting developement.<br>
<br>
James<br>
><br>
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