Mathtex is a parser and renderer for LaTeX math expressions. Based off of the Mathtex component of the Python plotting library, matplotlib.

News

• 17th August 2009: Version 0.3 released. Tarballs can be found on the Downloads page.
• 11th August 2009: Version 0.3 RC 1 released. Tarballs can be found on the Downloads page. There was no final 0.2 release.
• 5th August 2009: Version 0.2 RC 1 released. Tarballs can be found on the Downloads page.
• 31st July 2009: Version 0.1 released. Tarballs can be found on the Downloads page.
• 28th July 2009: Version 0.1 RC 2 released. Tarballs can be found on the Downloads page.
• 28th July 2009: Version 0.1 RC 1 released. Tarballs can be found on the Downloads page.
• 27th July 2009: Matplotlib updated to use mathtex; work available in the mathtex branch of matplotlib.
• 16th July 2009: Externalisation from matplotlib mostly complete; API documentation in-progress.

Downloads

The most recent stable release of mathtex is 0.3. It can be downloaded here: http://mathtex.googlecode.com/files/mathtex-0.3.tar.gz.

Features

Although much work is still needed mathtex currently supports a reasonable subset of the LaTeX math grammar using either computer modern, STIX, or unicode fonts.

In addition to a native Python interface, mathtex also includes a command line utility, which can often replace the traditional latex + dvipng work-flow for rendering math.

Currently two backends are provided: Image and Cairo. While the Image backend is limited to bitmap output the Cairo backend is able to render equations to any of the formats supported by the cairo library. This includes: SVG, PDF and PostScript.