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In article <1992Aug17.213921.9430@athena.mit.edu>  
ray@mtl.mit.edu (Ray Ghanbari) writes:
> That having been said, we have been toying with the idea of  
fleshing out  
> our Matrix class so that it can form the basis of a legitimate  
table  
> editor (TableBuilder?) that does all the wonderful things that  
one would  
> hope for.  The only question we had was whether there really  
was a need  
> for this sort of thing.  Comments, wish lists, PO's??? :-)
> 
> Ray Ghanbari                                
> Digital Tool Works
> ray@dtw.com

I strongly encourage you to do this.  In fact, I spoke with one  
of your representatives at the Mathematica convention in Boston  
suggesting that this would be a great product.  A lot more  
people produce tables than equations (for better or worse.)

Ideally, TableBuilder should be a palette object.  That way it  
can be part of spreadsheets, stat packages, presentation  
packages, publishing, etc., etc..  It should produce output in  
EPS or in TeX.  You can sell the palette object, along with a  
front end for it like EqB.
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