[asa] writing equations - a request

Soon I'm going to be getting off the asa list for awhile - not as a matter of taking my dolly dishes & going home or anything of that sort but just that I'm going to be in & out & need to focus on some other work. & 1 part of that other work leads me to a request.

I haven't been much involved in writing technical papers in physics for awhile & to the extent that I've had to write equations on a PC have managed to do it in a rather makeshift way. But I'd like to know what sort of software is available for such work - i.e., writing relatively complicated equations. By this I mean not just long collections of symbols but things that can't be done conveniently with what's available in Word or WordPerfect. I have in mind things like large integral or summation signs with limits, complicated expressions under radical signs, tensors with both sub- & superscripts &c. WordPerfect has an "equation editor" with which those things seems doable in principle but trying to use it seems to me to be a rather tedious process. (It doesn't help that I have a bit of a luddite streak - I was probably 1 of the last physicists in the USA to put my slide rule away.)

Any suggestions?

For clarity - I'm not talking about computer programs for solving equations, just for writing them on a PC.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/

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Received on Wed Jul 19 15:14:17 2006