dan@chem.bu.edu (Dan Dill) (04/27/91)
A new version (1.3) of TeX/Mathematica is available by anonymous ftp from chem.bu.edu (128.197.30.18) in directory /pub/tex-mathematica. TeX/Mathematica is a set of tools that provide facilities of Mathematica Notebooks in a UNIX environment, under GNU Emacs. They permit interaction between a text and a Mathematica buffer and, if desired, the use of TeX/LaTeX to annotate Mathematica-based explorations and programs. Inclusion of Mathematica-generated graphics in TeX/LaTeX documents printed using PostScript is supported. The major new feature is that calculations in a document can automatically be encapsulated in Mathematica packages. This means that the document can serve both as the description of the package and the source for the package code itself, in the spirit of Knuth's WEB system of structured documentation. With these tools one can interactively develop and refine teaching and research documents. The interactive nature of the tools encourages Mathematica-based exploration as a natural part of the writing process. I'd welcome your comments. Thanks Dan Dill dan@chem.bu.edu