GtkMathView 0.7.6

GtkMathView is a C++ rendering engine for MathML documents. GtkMathView provides an interactive view that can be used for browsing and editing MathML markup.
GtkMathView reads MathML documents by means of a frontend whose purpose is to traverse the MathML document (or part of it) and to appropriately instantiate GtkMathViews internal data structures that are suitable for rendering it.
Currently the following frontends are supported:
- libxml2 frontend, in which the MathML document is represented as a tree and navigated with the libxml2 tree API.
- libxml2 reader frontend, in which the MathML document is not entirely loaded in memory and is navigated with the libxml2 reader API. This frontend is mostly useful for batch rendering of MathML documents.
- GMetaDOM frontend, in which the MathML document is represented as a tree and is navigated with the DOM API provided by GMetaDOM, which in turn is a DOM-compliant wrapper for libxml2.
- custom frontend, in which the MathML document is represented in some application-specific format and is navigated with application-provided callback functions.
GtkMathView renders MathML documents through a backend whose purpose is to provide an abstraction of the platform-specific capabilities (available fonts, drawing drawing primitives, and so on).
Currently the following backends are provided:
- GTK+ backend, for rendering MathML documents using Pango in GTK+ applications.
- GTK+ widget backend, which wraps GtkMathView in a GTK+ widget to be directly embedded in GTK+ applications.
- SVG backend, which renders MathML into SVG.
- AbiWord backend, which allows one to embed MathML documents into AbiWord by means of the AbiMathView plugin.