Re: Bug#311997: ITP: gaim-latex -- gaim plugin wich translate LaTeX code into image in conversation

[Richard Lewis <rtf@jabble.com>]

Martin Braure de Calignon <braurede@free.fr> writes:

> I was wondering wether tex2im could be in tetex-bin or another package.
> It is just a small wrapper of latex&dvips& imagemagick to generate image
> from tex file. It is use by gaim-latex.
> You can see it at  http://www.nought.de/tex2im.php

could you not just use dvipng for this? see also preview-latex. [both
are part of upstream tetex 3.0 IIRC one motivation for developing
dvipng was that using ghostscript/imagemagick was too slow for
preview-latex]

[I dont have any say in what goes into debian, just an interested user]