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davidaustinm / prefigure

A package for authoring mathematical diagrams
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Prefigure as a service #2

Open StevenClontz opened 3 weeks ago

StevenClontz commented 3 weeks ago

One bit of friction for adopting Prefigure is that it uses Python rather than Javascript. I don't think anyone is up for a port to Javascript, but maybe if we had a Prefigure server (similar to how WebWork servers function), we could have live web rendering of Prefigure to images.

Or alternatively, we might use e.g. https://wasmer.io/posts/py2wasm-a-python-to-wasm-compiler to make this library available to Javascript in the browser.

Just tossing the idea out somewhere.

davidaustinm commented 3 weeks ago

I think this is a good idea. In fact, a group of us are actively planning to make PreFigure into a service, as you suggest. I can fill you in some more in person. I will note that some of the issues causing friction are likely to appear when/if the PreTeXt CLI supports a braille target.

I'm not familiar with ps2wasm but will check it out. Thanks for the reference.