Cantor does not show typeset formulas

[Alexander Semke]

HI Daniel,

> I installed Cantor and the Maxima backend a couple of days ago on Ubuntu.
> This is Cantor 16.12.3. I have the "Typset using LaTeX" option on (it was
> already on by default). But Cantor is not showing nicely typset formulas; I
> just get ASCII text. There is no error message, and I've spent a lot of
> time googling for a solution without any success. Can anyone give me a hand
> here? How do I make Cantor show nice formulas? Thanks for the help.

in case you're still interested, this problem was fixed recently. The fix will 
be available in the 18.04 release of KDE Applications. You can also give it a 
try now by compiling the current version of Cantor from sources.


Regards,
Alexander