Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 03:11:38 -0500 (EST)
From: John Forkosh <john@forkosh.com>
To: "[iso-8859-2] Adam Pelikán" <a.pelikan@scia.net>
Cc: "john@forkosh.com" <john@forkosh.com>
Subject: mimetex development - new parameter for breaking the line
    (noautoreply)

Adam,

Incorporating mimetex into a closed-source product would be
a violation of your gpl license...

Mimetex is licensed to you under the gpl, version 3 or later,
   http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
as clearly and explicitly discussed on its homepage
   http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html?gpl
Mimetex's copyright was registered by me, its sole author, with the
US Copyright Office. Effective Date of Registration is Nov. 12, 2002,
certificate number TX 5-567-446.
   You may use mimetex and its documentation in any way that complies
with all the terms and conditions of the gpl. Any other use, not
compliant with the gpl, is prohibited.
John  <john@forkosh.com>

On Fri, 24 Nov 2017, Adam Pelikán wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Recently we exchanged some email (from my personal
> address adam.pelikan@gmail.com).
> Now I'm writing from my company mailbox.
>
> We would like to implement Mimetex in our product Scia Engineer -
> software for design and analysis of civil structures,
> see https://www.scia.net We want to use it for mathematical formulas
> rendering in our outputs - structural caluculation protocols.
>
> The biggest obstacle we currently see is that sometimes formulas
> rendered by mimetex just flows out of the page width because they
> are too long. I'd like to ask you whether you could adjust mimetex
> so that it would break the line based on the width we would give you
> as some new parameter? For example we would call mimetex with really
> long fomrula and send you that the rendered picture cannot be widder
> that 190mm and in this case you would find the last equal symbol "="
> and break the line in this place. It means that rendered picture would
> have more rows and the width would be smaller than value of the new
> parameter. Of course we would pay you for this effort. What you think?
>
> Best regards, Adam
> Adam Pelikán
> Software Analyst
> SCIA CZ, s.r.o. -
> Evropská 2591/33d -
> CZ-160 00 -
> Praha 6 (Czech Republic)
> (+420) 226205600(+420) 604213812a.pelikan@scia.nethttps://www.scia.net