A little online discussion turned up a free Java applet that does pretty much exactly what I need -- given a LaTeX equation handed to it as a parameter, it renders the equation. Using Java seems like overkill, but I'll take a conceptually-inelegant solution that works over a conceptually-elegant one that doesn't.
So, here we go:
The applet's hosted on my webspace at U of M; it's pretty small, but all the same I'd prefer it if people would grab their own copies rather than using mine, bandwidth being a limited resource and all. The one clunky aspect is having to fiddle with the applet size in pixels; still, that's something I can live with.
Update: Well, it turns out that the applet won't run unless it's locally hosted -- it should work now, though.
Hey John, I've been using a command line tool called tex2im that produces beautiful output:
http://www.nought.de/tex2im.php
You can get it through fink as well.
Posted by: John Hernlun | February 06, 2007 at 02:08 PM
John, i'm looking forward to testing your compact and free java applet. Hope to note a few words when i finish with all that.
Posted by: Rodriguez | January 04, 2012 at 06:09 AM