24 May
2001
24 May
'01
7:20 a.m.
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:07:31AM -0700, Sellam Ismail wrote:
wish I can remember fine details (I can only remember
one in particular,
where a person was able to create a mathematical formula the way it would
be written on paper, with a real square root symbol, a division with the
dividend over the divisor separated by a horizontal line, etc. and all
this in the middle of a text document) but it's been a while.
MathCAD does that but it only runs on Windows. Some day I'd like to
write something similar as an open-source project, but only the front
end... I'm not enough of a mathematician to write all the algorithms
to actually do stuff with the equations. (I started using MathCAD back
in the late 80's on DOS, so it's even sortof on-topic... amazing what
they accomplished without a lot of processing power, or even using
graphics mode.)
LyX has a passable equation editor too.
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