LaTeX equations in Inkscape

**parktownprawn** · March 27th, 2009

You can used the inscape plugin Textex to put Latex formulas in your inkscape drawings. The nice thing is that you can re-edit the formulas.

To install, follow the instructions on the website above

**xadder** · March 27th, 2009

Great!! Not having e.g. easy subscripting for writing chemical equations has always been a show-stopper for me as far as Inkscape goes. Now it just became trivial, and with the rest of tex thrown in. Excellent

**meborc** · March 29th, 2009

Originally Posted by parktownprawn

You can used the inscape plugin Textex to put Latex formulas in your inkscape drawings. The nice thing is that you can re-edit the formulas.

To install, follow the instructions on the website above

that is very helpful... THANKS

**ad_267** · March 29th, 2009

This is really useful!

I actually found this plugin while ago but thought I'd just say how great it is.

Now Inkscape just needs to be able to save the file as LaTeX with an eps or pdf image for including in a LaTeX document like gnuplot can and it would be perfect...

**xylometazolin** · August 16th, 2009

@meborc
I'm also using the Karmic version of inkscape (0.46-devel) and installed textext in ~/.inkscape/extensions. But I could not find the extension in inkscape. There is no menu called "Extra" anymore. Where did you find it?

**XCan** · August 16th, 2009

On my Jaunty machine I can access the plugin under Effects -> Tex Text.

**meborc** · August 16th, 2009

Originally Posted by xylometazolin

@meborc
I'm also using the Karmic version of inkscape (0.46-devel) and installed textext in ~/.inkscape/extensions. But I could not find the extension in inkscape. There is no menu called "Extra" anymore. Where did you find it?

my karmic system still has internet problems, so i can't test this for you, sorry

my main box is jaunty...

**crapouchnick** · November 3rd, 2009

Originally Posted by xylometazolin

@meborc
I'm also using the Karmic version of inkscape (0.46-devel) and installed textext in ~/.inkscape/extensions. But I could not find the extension in inkscape. There is no menu called "Extra" anymore. Where did you find it?

I'm using the Karmic version of inkscape (0.47) and I could not find neither an "Extra" nor an "Effect" menu. Does anyone have a solution ?

**aimonas** · November 3rd, 2009

Hello everyone, see solution:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1310887

Tex Text will appear on the Extensions menus.

If you want to assign a keyboard shortcut (which I find to be very useful) see instructions

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1001635

cheers