Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 09:10:55 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, malartre@aei.ca Subject: Re: Math caracters (ALGEBRA) Message-ID: <199809231610.JAA05345@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <36084FA9.8D916E14@aei.ca>
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>Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 21:32:25 -0400 >From: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> >Would just like to know if anyone is using "math caracters". I mean >algebra. How could I do all those caracters my teacher write on the >board at school with vi? I'd need a little more information on the context in which you planned to make use of the characters -- for example, did you want to display them in an X application? Have them appear in a technical paper? Be able to enter them on a keyboard (for a rather advanced calculator)? Make them appear on a Web page? The second of the above is where I've had occasion to use them (with the first as a bit of a special case), and for that, I would use groff (& friends, especially eqn). Others, especially mathematicians (from what my brother tells me), tend to use TEX (which is nice, but I really like pipes). Once you've got source in some markup language (such as that used by TEX or groff), it can be transformed into someting that has the requisite appearance; for example, groff generates PostScript (by default), which can be dumped to a garden-variety PostScript printer, or viewed on an X server via ghostscript, for example. david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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