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FrameMaker and Math

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From: Kent E Morrison
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 16:29
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I am trying out a NeXT with Framemaker installed, but no
documentation. I would like to get a feel for using it to
set up mathematical expressions, but I am having trouble:
  
  1. I can't get a subscript or superscript.(Also, in the training
  documents the subscripts and superscripts do not appear in the
  correct location. Instead they look as if they are a full line
  above or below.)
  
  2.  The keyboard equivalents do not seem to work. That is to
  get an alpha I try \alpha or ~a, as they are listed in the symbol
  menu or palette, but no alpha results.
  
  3.  Although I have seen very nice documents produced with FM (viz.
  the NeXT advertising brochures), I have not seen mathematical papers
  done with it. I would like to hear from someone happily using 
  FM for mathematics. (By the way I happily use MathType with WriteNow
  on the Macintosh, a wonderful combination, and I use TeX without 
  difficulty.) 

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Kent Morrison                           kmorriso@nike.calpoly.edu
Math Dept                               office: (805) 756-2464
Cal Poly                                dept:   (805) 756-2206
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407               fax:    (805) 756-1670
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From: kmorriso@zeus.calpoly.edu (Kent E Morrison)
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Subject: FrameMaker and Math
Keywords: equations, keyboard equivalents
Message-ID: <1992Apr14.162945.1107684@zeus.calpoly.edu>
Date: 14 Apr 92 16:29:45 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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