IPython integration

IPython.display.SVG leads to problems, in my case with font rendering. This is a known problem (see IPython issue #1866 and IPython issue #700). The underlying problem is that the provided data is directly embedded into Jupyter’s DOM. One solution seems to be to mess around with the XML (proposed in IPython issue #700).

The working solution is to use a <img> tag and embed the SVG as Base64 data url. This is now done by through the _repr_html_ method of selected View classes.

An earlier, more explicit approach was to write:

IPython.display.Image(url=svg2url(render_schematic(lib.Inverter().schematic)))