Path: utzoo!hoptoad!pacbell!amdahl!amdcad!apple!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!mende From: mende@athos.rutgers.edu (Bob Mende Pie) Newsgroups: alt.next Subject: Re: The NeXT Problem Message-ID: Date: 17 Oct 88 05:07:45 GMT References: <26435@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <5498@juniper.uucp> <3884@encore.UUCP> <12844@oberon.USC.EDU> Organization: Yows `R' us Lines: 34 In article <12844@oberon.USC.EDU> crum@lipari.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) writes: > For example, how about (don't laugh!): > * if not already provided, a program to convert Mathematica output to > publication-quality PostScript description. This might be easiest with the > source code to Mathematica (or rather, easiest for Stephen Wolfram to do). > * given the above, a WSYWIG editor extended to keep Mathematical formulas > in some Mathematica-readable format but displayed in pretty format. So, > papers with mathematics in them could be constructed using cut-and-paste > between Mathematica and the editor. Papers could be send over email > as ASCII and MacWrite documents are now, and the receiver could cut > equations out of documents and "experiment" with them, using Mathematica > on his/her system. I guess I would ultimately like to see a standard format > for the communication of mathematical proof (logic) without the free use > of natural language, but that is too ambitious. You are thinking in a far to specific. First of all, I have seen Mathematica for the Sun, and *ALL* it's output is in postscript. This is perfect for "the cube". Mathematica also can output formulas in ascii, text, LaTeX, and numerous other formats. What I hope that the WordProcessor has is a ability to insert arbitrary PostPcript into a document. Since I assume that all programs that work on the NeXT machine will output postscript (a save assumption), you could insert anything into a paper. I also beleve that there weill be a desktop publishing system before long, since desktop publishing is BIG at universities. /Bob... -- {...}!rutgers!mende mende@aramis.rutgers.edu mende@zodiac.bitnet Hi there! This is just a note from me, to you, to tell you, the person reading this note, that since my operation I have not had a strange thought, well except the one about the MAMBA is a BLUE SUIT.