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From: wfh58@leah.Albany.Edu (William F. Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mathematical formula programs wanted.
Keywords: MATH FORMULA GRAPHICS
Message-ID: <3602@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 8 Sep 90 21:59:41 GMT
References: <1990Sep6.220202.24679@uokmax.uucp> <35721@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Reply-To: wfh58@leah.albany.edu.UUCP (William F. Hammond)
Organization: Dept of Math & Stat, SUNYA, Albany, NY
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In article <35721@unix.cis.pitt.edu> stern@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Eric G. Stern) writes:
>In article <1990Sep6.220202.24679@uokmax.uucp>, drtiller@uokmax.uucp (Donald Richard Tillery Jr) writes:
>
>> A customer came into Amazing today looking for a program that will allow him
>> to enter mathematical formulas with complex symbols to export to a desktop
>> publisher...
>> He has used TeX and PROFF, but would rather not have to use a
>> script language, and he needs it to be WYSIWYG...
>>   He is interested in
>> buying an Amiga, but he is writing his dissertation, and if this kind of
>> program is not available, he'll probably buy a Mac.  If you have any info,
>> please let me know....  Sean  
>
>> Anyone know of any programs?  It looks like it might mean an Amiga sale to
>> a future PHD.
>
>*Real* Ph.D.'s write their dissertations with TeX.  And what a miserable
>experience it was on a VAX.  Life would have been so much better
>with AmigaTeX.  I do all my TeX work at home on my Amiga now rather
>than use the system at the office with a twenty minute delay to get
>output.
>
>				Eric Stern
>				stern@unix.cis.pitt.edu

If you want "typesetting" of mathematical text, then I would suggest AmigaTeX.

However, it should be noted that the Amiga
  (1) provides a user-definable screen font, worth about 100 non-
      standard symbols
  (2) provides a user-definable keymap
  (3) provides algorithmic styling of screen fonts, for bold, italic
      and underline, which can be used to quadruple the number of
      "letters".
So mathematical text can be handled quite easily.  The "Etale" package
on Fish Disk 254 provides a symbol set that is made to match a good bit
of what is found on the "math fonts" cartridge for the HP Laser Jet.
The File Reader there gives an almost perfect preview of the printed page,
and it can be easily opened from a programmable editor on the current
page of text.  Examples of suitable programmable editors include "dme"
by Matt Dillon, which may be found on Fish Disk 284 (I think a later
version was included with "dice" on Fish Disk 359), and "TxEdPlus", an
inexpensive commercial editor by Microsmiths, Inc.

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William F. Hammond                   Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics
518-442-4625                         SUNYA, Albany, NY 12222
hammond@leah.albany.edu              wfh58@albnyvms.bitnet
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