fateman%ucbdali@Berkeley (Richard Fateman) (08/01/85)
> 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 -----------Forwarded Message------------- Date: Wed, 31 Jul 85 09:03:25 PDT From: fateman%ucbdali@Berkeley (Richard Fateman) Message-Id: <8507311603.AA14415@ucbdali.ARPA> Subject: Re: Terminals for algebraic computing Foster, Gregg, "DREAMS Display Representation for Algebraic Manipulation Systems", a MS project. Available for $3.00 (US). Ask for report #193, publications office, Computer Science Division, 573 Evans Hall, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley, CA 94720, USA (This uses a Sun workstation running Macsyma) I think it is not clear that the way to understand very very large expressions is to typeset them, by the way.