Math expression display

Andre Garzia soapdog at mac.com
Mon May 3 23:45:58 EDT 2004


On May 3, 2004, at 7:40 PM, Mary McEwen wrote:

> Is there a library in existence for revolution that 'pretty prints' 
> mathematical expressions in the standard way that you would see them 
> printed in a book, rather than the 'one line' computer format?  For 
> example you would see the expression:
>
> ((x^2 + 2x + 1) /(x + 1))^3   printed as a rational polynomial raised 
> to a power, with the numerator above the denominator, and the exponent 
> above and to the right of the numerator, outside of the quotient 
> parens.
>
> I have searched the archives and found very little other than a Feb 14 
> 2002 post about a SmoothTalk Library, whose link is no longer current.

could we create 'translators' to build TeX/LaTeX files and launch unix 
scripts to render them all as PS or PDF.... it's a hack but it could 
work

Cheers
andre


>
> Thanks,
> Mary McEwen
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Andre Alves Garzia ð 2004
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