[texhax] Producing text and math in a 'spiral shape'

[Herbert Voss]

Am 13.09.2012 17:47, schrieb Iraj Kalantari:
> In an exchange between Minsu Kim and Ulrike Fischer
>
> (see
> http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/comp.text.tex/2009-07/msg00425.html
> )
>
> the focus is on how to create *text* in the shape of a spiral.  (See
> source below.)  They use the digits of Pi for text in a successful example.
>
> I tried to insert a mathematical formula bookended by $s (say $a^2 + b^2
> =c^2$) but the source does not deliver and stops with an (odd) error
> message.

show exactly what you tried

Herbert


>
> Is there a remedy?  Is there a way to get mathematical formulas in the
> shape of a spiral?