Render to SVG

[braincore]

Without having investigated the crate on my own, I was wondering whether this was possible to add to the existing architecture and how large of an undertaking it would be.

[carloskiki]

The crate is very modular, and it would be quite easy to implement another "renderer" for svg (compared to implementing it for other latex processors). Basically the parser is an iterator of Events, and a renderer is simply something that takes this iterator and writes to a Writer the rendered svg. If you look at https://github.com/carloskiki/pulldown-latex/blob/main/src/mathml.rs, it only took around 1500 lines to implement a simple mathml renderer. I assume for svg it could be more, maybe around 3000 lines. Of course you need to know a lot about the svg spec, but I assume you can base yourself on other implementations.

[braincore]

Do you have any interest in doing the implementation for a sponsorship?

[carloskiki]

I don't have much time this summer as I have a full time job. I am a student, and during the fall and winter terms I usually find a lot of time to work on open source. If you are time constrained then I won't be of much help. In about two months I should have substantially more time to work on this, so you can contact me then if you are still interested.