LaTeX library please?

Feature requests
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Having access to a LaTeX library for writing maths expressions in text boxes etc. would be useful

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You mean at runtime? Can you suggest such a library?

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I don’t know of any suitable library, but yea, at runtime (seeing as I don’t see any way to do it outside of runtime).

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Perhaps you can do some research into this then? It might be possible to use a native extension to wrap the LaTeX library and add a Lua API on top.

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seeing as I don’t see any way to do it outside of runtime

If the expressions are static, you could output to a png with https://www.latex2png.com/ or convert the pdf to png (for example, with ImageMagick: graphics - Compile a LaTeX document into a PNG image that's as short as possible - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange).

If the expressions need to be changed during runtime, it’s do-able for example GodotTeX. So I suppose you could mimic it with the brand-new C# Native Extension support Defold + C# support.

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