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- From: Hal.Varian@umich.edu
- Subject: Re: What DTP/WP do tables (other than Frame)?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.023119.19334@lsa.umich.edu>
- Keywords: tables
- Sender: news@lsa.umich.edu
- Reply-To: Hal.Varian@umich.edu
- Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept
- References: <1992Aug17.213921.9430@athena.mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 02:31:19 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <1992Aug17.213921.9430@athena.mit.edu>
- ray@mtl.mit.edu (Ray Ghanbari) writes:
- > 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
-
- I strongly encourage you to do this. In fact, I spoke with one
- of your representatives at the Mathematica convention in Boston
- suggesting that this would be a great product. A lot more
- people produce tables than equations (for better or worse.)
-
- Ideally, TableBuilder should be a palette object. That way it
- can be part of spreadsheets, stat packages, presentation
- packages, publishing, etc., etc.. It should produce output in
- EPS or in TeX. You can sell the palette object, along with a
- front end for it like EqB.
- ---
- Hal.Varian@umich.edu Hal Varian
- voice: 313-764-2364 Dept of Economics
- fax: 313-764-2364 Univ of Michigan
- Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220
-