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Mats G L|fdahl writes:
>   Jeremy Gibbons writes:
>
>   I still think this is a misguided desire. The kind of editing you can
>   reasonably *expect* to be able to do in terms of the printed page---
>   correcting spelling mistakes, adding an extra word, etc---are just as
>   easily done in terms of the TeX source code.
>
>Well, there is a lot of things I'd like to be able to do in the
>wysiwyg way. Building formulas, for example, by clicking on buttons.
>
>Clicking on a summation sign would then not just insert a Sigma
>bitmap (or whatever) but actually enter the \sum control sequence into
>the TeX file. With the cursor on a symbol (e.g. the Sigma), clicking
>on a superscript symbol would perhaps move the cursor to the
>superscript position and allow you to build a superscript (or, in case
>of the \sum control sequence, an upper limit of the summation).

I haven't played with it yet, but on the mac there is a program called 
Expressionist which does exactly that.  I played with version 2.0 which only
put out a bitmap, but the 3.0 is supposed to be able to output TeX.

>What if you had a button that would pop up a window with a list of the
>parameters of the current paragraph (or the current list or the
>current environment)? Editing that list could put changes to those
>parameters in that paragraph (if necessary inside a group).

I was thinking that perhaps a plain text mode where you could play with
all of the parameters would accomplish the same thing.

[great list of ideas deleted]

At least the rudaments seem very do-able.  I don't know how far it could
go though.


Zeke Koch
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