This method is fairly simple and works for my purposes, however if you have more complex formulae or a need to edit latex objects after they’ve been rendered, I would recommend using TexText instead. To ensure this step is done correctly, the bottom of Inkscape should show the number of objects selected of type path instead of. Click on Font Bundles to select the text. After hitting apply, your equation should appear as an object you can move and resize. Step 2 - Change the word or phrase from text to a path. The text you type into the dialogue that appears is rendered by latex in text-mode, so in order to render an equation, you must add the equation mode dollar signs around it, like $e=mc^2$. You can then click and drag the diamond to resize your text box. The final option may look slightly different on other platforms. For paragraph-style text, click and drag a text box within the document.

This is what it looks like on linux with pdflatex installed. One layer has the original flowed text the other is a copy of the layer with flowed text, but with all of the text converted to normal text frames. The workaround I usually do is to have two layers for text. With Inkscape open, navigate to the menu Extensions > Render > Mathematics > Latex (pdflatex). For all intents and purposes, converting a text flow into a normal text is a one-way operation in Inkscape. Inkscape does not include its own latex renderer so **you must have latex installed on your local machine. I’ve always found the default extension sufficient but if you’re looking for a more polished experience, check out TexText. It’s not difficult but the menus are quite cluttered and there’s a quirk to rendering to equations that’s helpful to know. Rendering latex equations or text in the graphics package Inkscape is not an intuitive task, so I’ve decided to create an extremely short tutorial on doing exactly that using Inkscape’s in-built latex extesion.

How to formate text in inkscape