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- From: ray@mtl.mit.edu (Ray Ghanbari)
- Subject: Re: What DTP/WP do tables (other than Frame)?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.213921.9430@athena.mit.edu>
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- References: <1992Aug17.054623.1080@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 21:39:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug17.054623.1080@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
- tlm@nextasy.physics.mcmaster.ca (Tom Marchioro) writes:
- > But this raises an interesting point: there is *one* NeXT app which
- might
- > do a lot of what you want (particularly once 3.0 arrives) and that's
- > EquationBuilder. Although it's designed to be a GUI equation driver
- > for the NeXT it's matrix facilities also allow you to make certain types
- > of tables. Best of all, the output is pure EPSF and can be reopened and
- > edited. (the hard part with EqB would be things like putting boxes
- around
- > the entries, captions, etc. but this might be done by dropping the
- finished
- > product into, say, Diagram!). Grab the EquationBuilder Demo from sonata
- > (it's in 2.0-release/demos I think), install it, bring up the Help panel
- > and read document 09Tables.rtfd for a description of how to use the
- matrix
- > facilities to make a table (it would be fairly easy to make most of
- what
- > you posted).
- >
- > Best --- Tom
-
- Before people get too excited, EqB wasn't really designed to do tables and
- hence, doesn't do them very well. We were unsure we should even mention
- it in the docs. The only reason we did so was that there seemed to be no
- better tool available.
-
- That having been said, we have been toying with the idea of fleshing out
- our Matrix class so that it can form the basis of a legitimate table
- editor (TableBuilder?) that does all the wonderful things that one would
- hope for. The only question we had was whether there really was a need
- for this sort of thing. Comments, wish lists, PO's??? :-)
-
- Ray Ghanbari
- Digital Tool Works
- ray@dtw.com
-