jdutka@wpi.wpi.edu (John Dutka) (02/21/89)
I've done some work with Expressionist on the Macintosh computers, and I was wondering if a version was available for the Amigas? Expressionist enables you to enter complex formulas with options such as fraction bars, the 3 types of parenthesis, matrices, and multiple font capability, along with the option of printing any character with a subscript, superscript, or any combination of the two, and paste them into other applications. This has proven useful for me for some Mechanical Engineering papers I've had to write, and I wanted to know if anyone reading this message knows if it, or something like it is available for the Amigas. +--------------------------+----------------------+--------------------------+ | John A. Dutka (jdutka) | . . . .____. . | jdutka@wpi.bitnet | | Worcester Polytechnic | | | | | | | | jdutka@wpi.wpi.edu | | WPI Box 2308 | | | | |____| | | | | 100 Institute Road | | | | | | +--------------------------+ | Worcester, MA 01609-2280 | |__|__| | | | WPI - Home of the | | (508) 792-1949 | (C) 1989, Chris Moir | ever-growing tuition. | +--------------------------+----------------------+--------------------------+
jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) (02/23/89)
In article <926@wpi.wpi.edu> jdutka@wpi.wpi.edu (John Dutka) writes: >I've done some work with Expressionist on the Macintosh computers, and I was >wondering if a version was available for the Amigas? Expressionist enables >you to enter complex formulas with options such as fraction bars, the 3 types >of parenthesis, matrices, and multiple font capability, along with the option >of printing any character with a subscript, superscript, or any combination of >the two, and paste them into other applications. >This has proven useful for me for some Mechanical Engineering papers I've had >to write, and I wanted to know if anyone reading this message knows if it, or >something like it is available for the Amigas. Such a program is very useful. 'Expressionist' isn't available on the Amiga, but something far better (IMHO) is: TeX. TeX was designed by Donald Knuth for doing typesetting, particularily for scientists, mathematicians, and engineers. I handles all the things you mention, plus innumerable other things, and is available for everything from IBM mainframes to the Amiga. Tom Rokiki, of Radical Eye Software, ported TeX to the Amiga and sells it. All reports I have heard from users of it have been very positive (I haven't used it myself, though I've looked at TeX before). Tom's version includes a previewer (with multitasking, this can be essentially real-time), and a ARexx port (a popular macro language that allows you to write macro programs for any program that has such a port, and even have the macro program talking to your editor, TeX, and the previewer (etc) at the same time.) It is heavily used at SLAC (Stanford Linear ACcelerator, or some such) by the physicists there for writing papers, etc. TeX includes a ridiculous number of fonts, and a similar number of printer drivers (it can do suprising things with a 24-pin dot-matrix printer). Tom also apparently provides excellent support (again, I don't use TeX, so I am relaying second-hand information). -- Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup