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Equation Builder question

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From: Bill Smith
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1992 21:09
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I've using Eqb for some things - it seems to work fine except for
a few things:

1)  When you push the fraction button, the cursor ends up on the bottom
instead of the top - so you have to arrow key back to get to the
numerator (or use the mouse).

2)  If you push the fraction button next to an expression it will often 
put the expression into the numerator of the fraction. Ugh.  All
is well if you type the numerator and then a / though.

3)  It would be nice to have double and triple integral signs with
auto centered under-over-scripts.  You can create your own of
course, but its a bit of a pain to have to do this every time.

4)  On multi-line gadgets, it would be nice to be able to come back
and just *insert* extra (blank) lines by just hitting <return> after an
already typed line.  So when you type in 17 lines and find out you left
out a line, you don't have to do some tedius cut and paste.  If you
can do this and I just didn't find it in the manual, let me know, ok?

5)  Sometimes after you've pasted an equation into a doc, and then you
want to put it back into Eqb, it says it can't find an equation when 
you try to paste.   Seems to cure the problem when you save your
doc. sometimes.  I never save Eqb files because its so convenient
just to paste em back in and modify if you want to.  Works great
for long papers and books!

6)  Is there going to be a version 1.0 soon?

7)  It's a very nice little help in writing.  Now if it could just
do generalized eigenfunction expansions for systems of P.D.E.'s
-  it would put me out of a job.  ;-)

-Bill
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Subject: Equation Builder question
Date: 29 Oct 1992 21:09:39 GMT
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