Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ut-sally!utastro!bill
From: bill@utastro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: a wish re: equation processing (are you listening, uSoft?)
Message-ID: <2384@utastro.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jan 88 14:41:48 GMT
References: <590@ut-emx.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@astro.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
Organization: UT AUSTIN Astronomy Department/McDonald Observatory
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In article <590@ut-emx.UUCP> cgeiger@ut-emx.UUCP (charles s. geiger, esq.) writes:
~I personally think the idea behind Word's equation processing is
~pretty good.  I don't think WYSIWYG equation processing works too
~well right now (except for maybe Interleaf, which costs a fortune);
~The problem is that their implementation of the idea which sucks.
~Command-Shift-backslashes or whatever they use is so awkward!

[Detailed proposal for style supporting TeX or eqn omitted]
~
~This would be so much more straightforward than Word's present way of
~doing equations.  Granted, it's not WYSIWYG, but it is easy to master,
~sets equations up just as they're set up in journals, can be used both
~for in-line equations and displayed equations, and (it seems to me--I'm
~not a programmer) could be easily written into the program.
~

Bingo! This is exactly the sort of thing I was thinking of. If anybody--
Ann Arbor, Microsoft, ..., implemented such a thing in an otherwise
well-thought-out WP, I'd buy it in a flash. The real point is, will
someone do it???

Bill Jefferys
-- 
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Hot.	Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you
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