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Subject: Re: SUN DTP S/W
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Date: Wed, 1-Oct-86 20:27:42 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  1 20:27:42 1986
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Summary: Is there a text editor with user-definable math symbols?

In article <2469@utai.UUCP>, lamy@utai.UUCP (Jean-Francois Lamy) writes:
> Is there a software package, anywhere, on any machine, that does
> WYSIWIG mathematics and still lets you define your own notation?
> (e.g. by adding your own items to a palette) Just being curious...

I'd sure like to have one myself.  I've been writing out a whole
lot of equations by hand lately, for lack of being able to put
"ForAll" and "SummationOver" and such up on the screen.  Though
I've found that straightforward text substitution for the special
symbols is fairly easy for me to read, it sure is hard for *others*
to read it.

Rather than having a palette, I'd just as soon bind the special
symbols to keys (Meta-A gives "ForAll", Meta-E gives "ThereExists",
etc.).

If anyone knows of such a thing, for a PClone or Sun, please post.

Bill

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