# LaTeX library please?

**URL:** <https://forum.defold.com/t/latex-library-please/80197>\
**Category:** Feature requests (USE GITHUB)\
**Created:** [April 2, 2025, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/latex-library-please/80197 "2025-04-02T15:45:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jocoder2](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/jocoder2/32/25172_2.png) [@Jocoder2](https://forum.defold.com/u/Jocoder2)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/latex-library-please/80197/1 "2025-04-02T15:45:48Z")

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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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**Author:** ![britzl](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/britzl/32/23_2.png) [@britzl](https://forum.defold.com/u/britzl)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 9:01pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/latex-library-please/80197/2 "2025-04-02T21:01:47Z")

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

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**Author:** ![Jocoder2](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/jocoder2/32/25172_2.png) [@Jocoder2](https://forum.defold.com/u/Jocoder2)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 10:55pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/latex-library-please/80197/3 "2025-04-02T22:55:04Z")

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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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**Author:** ![britzl](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/britzl/32/23_2.png) [@britzl](https://forum.defold.com/u/britzl)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 6:37am UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/latex-library-please/80197/4 "2025-04-03T06:37:05Z")

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> [@Jocoder2](#):
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> I don’t know of any suitable library

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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**Author:** ![menaechmi](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/menaechmi/32/39196_2.png) [@menaechmi](https://forum.defold.com/u/menaechmi)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 7:27pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/latex-library-please/80197/5 "2025-04-03T19:27:50Z")

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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/](https://www.latex2png.com/) or convert the pdf to png (for example, with ImageMagick: [https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/11880](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/11880)).

If the expressions need to be changed during runtime, it’s do-able for example [GodotTeX](https://github.com/lennart-finke/GodoTeX). So I suppose you could mimic it with the brand-new C# Native Extension support [Defold + C# support](https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-c-support/79479).