WebMath: RE: Mathematical text on the web

[Paul Libbrecht]

Hi,

Sorry to respond so late....


On Wednesday, July 11, 2001, at 04:06 AM, James White wrote:
> mathematical expressions fairly easily with an intuitive keyboard 
> interface
> (no metalanguage, no tables of special expressions).  To create an 
> exponent,
> you simply press "^" in the editor and it knows what to do -- even to 
> resize

And have you thought about the tangent plane, the n-th element of a 
sequence or the n-th derivative ? Extensibility of any kind ?


> 	Until this Summer, Mathwright has only been available as a 
> downloadable
> application.  In fact, you may check out some of our 154 WorkBooks at
> http://www.mathwright.com  (The New Mathwright Library and Cafe).  The new
> 32-bit Java version of Mathwright plays these books in MSIE browsers
> (version 4 or higher).  More ambitious web authors might like to take a 
> look

But why, why, why is there only a .exe file not even being sorry that this 
is Windows only?

> at our Math Edit plugin, which is an ActiveX Control that enables anyone 
> to
> place mathematical text, ordinary text,  and/or pictures on their own web
> pages.  The advantage of authoring in Mathwright to place the text on a 
> web
> page, within the context of mathematics scripting language and a variety 
> of
> display objects (2 and 3D graph windows, and so on) is obvious.  The text 
> is
> active and responsive, and so it provides a rich experience for the 
> learner.

A comparison to Mupad ActiveX controls ?
Maybe more for programmers but... connected to a computer algebra system !

> 	Please feel free to visit the Library to see what others have done, 
> and are
> doing.  If what you see looks interesting, respond with questions from the
> site, and we will try to answer them.

Thanks for the invitation but my experience stopped at the .exe...
Does NFS really fund projects that are M$ only ?

Paul
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