My goal is to record maths scripts running on the canvas and at the same time record sound from the mic (I am a math teacher). I would like very much to allow latex formulas. Of course latex formulas do not write directly to canvas. MathJax can produce SVG elements. I wonder if it is possible to go from SVG->image->canvas, using javascript. I don't care if the obtained image on canvas is a little blured. I couldn't find good examples of this yet on the internet. Thanks!
2 Answers
Indeed there is no Latex to canvas direct way.
You can however draw an SVG over a canvas. See this Q/A to see how to proceed from an SVG in the DOM (which MathJax should give you).
Indeed that's possible. The trick here is to grab the SVG output of MathJax and draw it to a temporary <img> element, which in-turn is drawn to an on-screen canvas afterwards.
The actual <svg> element is a children of the <mjx-container> element returned by a call to MathJax's tex2svg() method.
Here's an example:
let canvas = document.getElementById('canvas');
let ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
let equation = "x = \\sin \\left( \\frac{\\pi}{2} \\right)";
let svg = MathJax.tex2svg(equation).firstElementChild;
let img = document.createElement('img');
img.onload = (e) => {
let tempWidth = e.target.naturalWidth;
let tempHeight = e.target.naturalHeight;
ctx.drawImage(e.target, canvas.width / 2 - tempWidth / 2, canvas.height / 2 - tempHeight / 2, tempWidth, tempHeight)
}
img.src = 'data:image/svg+xml;base64,' + btoa('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>\n' + svg.outerHTML);#canvas {
background-color: #eeeeee;
}<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/mathjax@3/es5/tex-svg.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
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