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Using Expressionist to Generate TeX Equations

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From: Paul Malan
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:10
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I recently obtained Expressionist V3.0 for the purpose of generating
TeX equations. The default Expressionist palette is set up to 
generate equations in normal (non-italic) text. Consequently the TeX 
code generated  is sprinkled with "\rm" commands to change the math 
mode font back to the regular "upright" font.

Since I like the default appearance of TeX equations, and to maintain
compatibility with existing documents, I set about changing the entire 
Expressionist palette to italics. This is an easy, but very tedious,
task. In general, the result works, except for some macros. For instance,
even though I have recreated the partial derivative macro in italics,
it always gives the code: $${\partial \rm ? \over \partial \rm ?}$$.

A less-than-ideal solution is to manually edit the \rm out afterwards --
but if that's the only way I'll probably go back to hand-crafted equations.

Does anyone have an alternative suggestion on how to rectify this problem? 

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Paul Malan, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
malan@leland.stanford.edu
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From: malan@leland.Stanford.EDU (Paul Malan)
Subject: Using Expressionist to Generate TeX Equations
Message-ID: <1992Dec11.191022.3220@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Summary: Can't stop "\rm" from being inserted in macros
Keywords: Expressionist, TeX
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Organization: ME Dept., Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 19:10:22 GMT
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