Bug#500777: RFP: inkscape-textext -- textext is an Inkscape extension allowing to put editable LaTeX text or formula into the Inkscape figure

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* Package name    : inkscape-textext
  Version         : 0.4.3
  Upstream Author : Pauli Virtanen <pav@iki.fi>
* URL             : http://www.elisanet.fi/ptvirtan/software/textext/
* License         : BSD (declared in the textext.py file), also own LICENSE.txt file, which seems to be BSD compatible
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : textext is an Inkscape extension allowing to put editable LaTeX text or formula into the Inkscape figure

* Long description from the textext.py file:

Textext is an extension for Inkscape_ that allows adding
LaTeX-generated text objects to your SVG drawing. What's more, you can
also *edit* these text objects after creating them.

This brings some of the power of TeX typesetting to Inkscape.

Textext was initially based on InkLaTeX_ written by Toru Araki,
but is now rewritten.

Thanks to Robert Szalai, Rafal Kolanski, Brian Clarke, and Florent Becker
for contributions.
    
    .. note::
       Unfortunately, the TeX input dialog is modal. That is, you cannot
       do anything else with Inkscape while you are composing the LaTeX
       text snippet.
    
       This is because I have not yet worked out whether it is possible to
       write asynchronous extensions for Inkscape.
    
    .. note::
       Textext requires Pdflatex and one of the following
         - Pdf2svg_
         - Pstoedit_ compiled with the ``plot-svg`` back-end
         - Pstoedit_ and Skconvert_
    .. _Pstoedit: http://www.pstoedit.net/pstoedit
    .. _Skconvert: http://www.skencil.org/
    .. _Pdf2svg: http://www.cityinthesky.co.uk/pdf2svg.html
    .. _Inkscape: http://www.inkscape.org/
    .. _InkLaTeX: http://www.kono.cis.iwate-u.ac.jp/~arakit/inkscape/inklatex.html

* Packaging suggestions:

Textext consists (currently) from three files: textext.inx, textext.py and
LICENSE.txt.
Textext may be installed without packaging, by the user him/herself, just
by putting the textext.inx and textext.py into the ~/.inkscape/extensions
directory.
Packaging should be relatively easy, the files: textext.inx and texttext.py
should be installed into the /usra/share/inkscape/extensions directory,
and LICENSE.txt should be (probably?) installed into /usr/share/doc/textext
directory.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)