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butterwo@cassatt.cs.unc.edu (Jeff Butterworth) writes:
>	What I want to know is, is there any editor out there that will allow
>me to manipulate equations and other mathematical symbols?  It doesn't have
>to do any calculations at all. (That's my job.)  I just want to be able to
>do my homework on the computer, like all the English and Psych majors.
>Surely there's something that will let me do the basic word processing tasks
>like cutting and pasting, but will also let me type in a messy fraction and
>then put a square root sign around it.
>	I would prefer something for the IBM PC, but I would even hop on a
>Mac or X-Windows if I could type in equations.
>	Can anyone give me some pointers?  Thanks in advance.

Once upon a time (1985 :-) when I was still studying mathematled "SIGNUM!"
( really SIGNUM!2 in the meantime ) and runs (exclusively) on any Atari ST.

( I know that this machine has a 'games only' image in the US and lacks
professional support - in Germany the situation is very different - , but 
when the software was designed,
we expacted it would be more expensive than the hardware anyway,
so Franz selected the machine most suitable for this kind of
fast graphic character operations, expecting all customers to
buy the same - and really, quite a number of ST
have been sold just to run Signum! on it ).

Disclaimer: I'm a friend of the autor. And I like Signum!



             I know that You believe You understand what You think I said, but
             I'm not sure You realize that what You heard is not what I meant.

Roland Rambau

  rra@cochise.pcs.com,   {unido|pyramid}!pcsbst!rra,   2:507/414.2.fidonet 

Sorry, if my signature is included twice - this is intentional, since
we have a line-eater bug in this weeks mail software ( we are regularyly
testing our software til it breaks :-)