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From: JESSE.THARIN@f7.n300.z1.fidonet.org (JESSE THARIN)
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Subject: Re: Intermediate Algebra
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Date: 3 Oct 90 14:31:08 GMT
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Jim...
     Have you considered a DA such as DeskDraw, or especially DeskPaint?
You could paste up a formula from pieces and then cut-n-paste it into
anything you're working on, such as a word processing document. Most of
the symbols you would require would be in the SYMBOL font, and a simple
tabular printout of that pinned up on the (cork) bulletin board would be
easy to translate over, or you could also have the KeyCaps DA on-screen at 
the same time. The whole formula in DeskPaint would be a bitmap graphic,
so it wouldn't stretch well, but that'd be no problem with a little
practice. You didn't say what word processor (if any) you'd be pasting the 
formulas into, but most will wrap or not wrap as you call it. I've asked
around about dedicated formula generators and haven't yet got an answer.
Did you know that MicroSoft Word has formula generating codes built in?
It's crude and obtuse (MS-DOS origins, of course), and the formula won't
show on-screen except in the slower WYSIWYG mode, but I hear it does work
well. 
        
     Another approach that limits your ability to resize the numbers and
symbols, like if you want a big Sigma and a tiny superscript and a
mid-sized Delta, is to open a locked document with a small workspace in
the middle surrounded by an already typed library of characters that you
can selectively cut and paste into the central workspace to build your
formula. You then select the construct and quit the document without
saving changes, and paste the clipboard onto or into your text.
        
     Don't rule out MultiFinder. You can run a separate program if it's
better than any DA that you find. If you have a one-megabyte machine, you
can upgrade to 2.5 megs for about $135. This machine here has four
megabytes, which makes for one marvelous RAM cache (things move kinda
quickly). 
        
Jesse
 

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