home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!sarah!vidar.albany.edu!hibrown
- From: hibrown@vidar.albany.edu (Herb Brown)
- Subject: Re: Word processor with equation layout support?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.170105.8398@sarah.albany.edu>
- Sender: news@sarah.albany.edu (News Administrator)
- Organization: State University of New York at Albany
- References: <1992Nov21.220047.3300@nic.csu.net> <By6DnG.EID@news.iastate.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 17:01:05 GMT
- Lines: 40
-
- In article <By6DnG.EID@news.iastate.edu> madsen@cs.iastate.edu (Dave Madsen) writes:
- >
- >FinalCopy II will allow you to write equations using the symbol font it
- >is supplied with. It has some of the basic symbols, such as integrals,
- >derivatives, summation, etc.. Some of the characters have two or more
- >parts to them (such as the large integral, bracket, brace, and
- >parenthesis) to allow them to stretch over more than one line. One
- >symbol that I haven't been able to locate is the partial integral,
- >however, I have been able to find the partial derivative. I suppose it
- >would be simple enough to use FC II's circle drawing tool to change an
- >integral to a partial.
- >
- >FC II does allow you to display them, however, it does not allow you to
- >calculate them.
- >
- >--Dave
- >---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Dave R. Madsen | Computer Science Department | Office: 107 Atanasoff
- >Systems Support Group | Iowa State University | madsen@cs.iastate.edu
- >---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- How is this done? For example, suppose I wish to write the sum from
- 1 to infinity of 1/i^3. What precisely do I need to do in Final Copy
- to accomplish this as a mathematical equation? Please be specific.
-
- (In ProWrite, one may use the 'insert literal' option to insert math
- symbols.)
-
- Thanks,
-
- Herb
-
-
-
- --
- Herb Brown Math Dept The Univ at Albany Albany, NY 12222 (518) 442-4640
- Director, hibrown@math.albany.edu
- Computer Assisted Instruction in Mathematics hibrown@csc.albany.edu
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-