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- From: caughey@farad.UVic.CA (Dave Caughey)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.frame
- Subject: There's *got* to be a better way!
- Keywords: FrameMath
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.170029.4066@sol.UVic.CA>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 17:00:29 GMT
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- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
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- Two problems I've noted about the FrameMath package:
-
- 1. Quite often I want to show derivations or proofs in my papers. This
- requires me to enter a lot of equations of the form
-
- left_hand_side = right_hand_side#1
- = right_hand_side#2
- = right_hand_side#3
-
- where all the equals signs are lined up. A related scenario has a long
- expression spread across multiple lines, with operators lined up with the
- initial equal sign
-
- left_hand_side = component#1
- + component#2
-
-
- According to the FrameMath manual, it proposes a method of doing this
- (the instructions take 3 pages!), which consists of creating multiple
- equations modifying the alignment properties, merging them into one
- frame, zooming to 400% and *manually* positioning them in 1 or 6pt
- increments, iteratively verifying correct alignment by using a vertical
- line!
-
- Pardon? A good-sized paper may have up to 100 equations in it!
-
- Does anyone know of an easier method of doing this? (with macros,
- perhaps? parallel frames?)
-
- 2. Shrink-wrapping an equation shrinks things too much. Quite often
- (80% of the time?) part of a complex expression is hidden after
- shrinking, such as the upper or lower bounds of a summation or
- integral. Having to manually resize each equation's frame seems a
- little inefficient... Is the shrinkage border a settable option?
-
- Thanks for any hints, advice, etc...
- ___________________________________________________________________________
- Dave Caughey Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Engineering
- caughey@sirius.uvic.ca P.O. Box 3055
- University of Victoria
- "Ten million lemmings can't be wrong" Victoria, B.C., CANADA V8W 3P6
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