Developer's guide to KLatexFormula 2.0.1

KLFBackend (library) - the backend work. The base work is done here. This is a library that doesn't need KDE to compile - it will compile with Qt 3 or Qt 4 and run in console or gui mode. This library mostly provides one function that is KLFBackend::getLatexFormula(...) that gives you an image from a latex string. It handles "latex", "dvips", "gs", as well as "epstopdf" in the background, in a completely transparent way. For more information, you should look at the KLFBackend doxygen api documentation, which you can generate from the Doxyfile provided in the source tarball of KLatexFormula 2.0.1.

klatexformula_cmdl (executable) - the command-line interface to KLFBackend. This isn't a mountain. It translates command-line options to parameters to KLFBackend and prints result to stdout or file. Check out "klatexformula_cmdl --help" for info or have a look at the source code (file src/klfcmdl_main.cpp). Note that klatexformula_cmdl needs full KDE, although it can run without X.

klatexformula (executable) - the big graphical interface, integrated to KDE, providing syntax highlighting, a history browser, a latex symbol palette, drag and drop, copy/paste, save to disk, etc.