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Article #24283Re: a wish re: equation processing (are you listening, uSoft?)
From: William H. Jefferys
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1988 14:41
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1988 14:41
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In article <590@ut-emx.UUCP> cgeiger@ut-emx.UUCP (charles s. geiger, esq.) writes: ~I personally think the idea behind Word's equation processing is ~pretty good. I don't think WYSIWYG equation processing works too ~well right now (except for maybe Interleaf, which costs a fortune); ~The problem is that their implementation of the idea which sucks. ~Command-Shift-backslashes or whatever they use is so awkward! [Detailed proposal for style supporting TeX or eqn omitted] ~ ~This would be so much more straightforward than Word's present way of ~doing equations. Granted, it's not WYSIWYG, but it is easy to master, ~sets equations up just as they're set up in journals, can be used both ~for in-line equations and displayed equations, and (it seems to me--I'm ~not a programmer) could be easily written into the program. ~ Bingo! This is exactly the sort of thing I was thinking of. If anybody-- Ann Arbor, Microsoft, ..., implemented such a thing in an otherwise well-thought-out WP, I'd buy it in a flash. The real point is, will someone do it??? Bill Jefferys -- Glend. I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hot. Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? -- Henry IV Pt. I, III, i, 53
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ut-sally!utastro!bill From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: a wish re: equation processing (are you listening, uSoft?) Message-ID: <2384@utastro.UUCP> Date: 22 Jan 88 14:41:48 GMT References: <590@ut-emx.UUCP> Reply-To: bill@astro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys) Organization: UT AUSTIN Astronomy Department/McDonald Observatory Lines: 26