Re: [asa] writing equations - a request

On 7/19/06, George Murphy <gmurphy@raex.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>

You can try using MathCast which is an open source program.
http://mathcast.sourceforge.net/home.html

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Received on Wed Jul 19 16:21:16 2006