From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 9 10:51:21 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BDCA1065670 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 10:51:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (agora.rdrop.com [199.26.172.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08CA08FC15 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 10:51:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (66@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.7) with ESMTP id o19Ap9Yi018837 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 9 Feb 2010 02:51:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.9/Submit) with UUCP id o19Ap9OB018836; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 02:51:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from fbsd61 by pluto.rain.com (4.1/SMI-4.1-pluto-M2060407) id AA28772; Tue, 9 Feb 10 02:41:04 PST Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:38:22 -0800 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: kline@thought.org Message-Id: <4b713b1e.iNWKGRt3uf/o0KCJ%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <20100209044004.GA73416@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20100209044004.GA73416@thought.org> User-Agent: nail 11.25 7/29/05 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: display and manipulate math symbols? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:51:21 -0000 Gary Kline wrote: > Is there any app or web site where you can select from a bunch of > math symbols and arrange them on-screen ... pre-drawn symbols that > could be moused around? If not for the WYSIWYG requirement I'd suggest some variant of TeX. Based entirely on reputation, I'd think PowerPoint could do this fairly easily, provided the symbols you need are in one of the installed fonts. Have you tried the corresponding OpenOffice tool? (I think it may be called "present" or some such.) If I were going to do something like this, and didn't want to take time to learn a new tool, I'd try using Visio -- one of only two apps which I've found useful enough to get me to voluntarily put up with Windoze. Dunno (yet) how well it will run under wine; this is one of several things I intend to try if I can ever find the time to get a newer FreeBSD system set up. (Wine is reputed to not work at all well on 6.1.) Ports/graphics/dia is somewhat similar to Visio, I think more limited, but perhaps sufficient depending on just what you need to do.