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From: playboy@wacsvax.OZ (McIsaac K)
Newsgroups: net.math.symbolic
Subject: Terminals for algebraic computing
Message-ID: <197@wacsvax.OZ>
Date: Sun, 28-Jul-85 22:49:46 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 28 22:49:46 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 30-Jul-85 06:11:13 EDT
Organization: Comp. Sci. University of Western Australia.
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While at the 1984 MACSYMA users conference I heard about "The Dream".
It was the result of a PhD. thesis (I think). It is a front end  for
MACSYMA, providing scroll back, mathmatical layout and part selection
by pointing for algebraic expressions. I have long wanted to have
better output from the algebra packages I've been using (REDUCE, SMP),
because of the length of the expressions I generate (I'm a theoretical
physicist). It occured to me some time ago that the Macintosh (or
similar ) would be ideal for such a task as it has a mouse for pointing
to expressions, its own storage for scroll back and very powerfull font
system (Greek/Math Super-Subscript, half line .....).

I would like any references to thesis, papers, publications or programs
that deal with formating, printing, graphical selection  etc of
algebraic expressions.

Kevin McIsaac