[Gmath-devel] Mathematical Symbols

[Klaus N. <kl...@xo...>]

Dear Hassan,

I think your Project sounds very nice and indeed it is a good idea to
provide a generic user-interface for mathematical programs. I have been
using for sometime Maple and though I confess that I use most often
text-mode, I really like the cut and paste functions of this program. I
don't know how mathematica looks like, but I guess similar.

Are you planning to implement such cut and paste functions for your
project? Are you able to display fractions, greek letters,
integral-signs and so on? (For greek letters Pango should do it, I guess
and I think it will be soon used as default for Gtk anyway, but
fractions and subindexes and things is probably difficult.)

I'm not sure if I really want to participate, but I will have at least a
look at your program.

By the way, when I was doing my master thesis I developed a small
algebra-program and the thing I really found annoying was, that I had to
program the parser that transforms all those term like [[a,b]+5c,d] into
a tree structure myself. Could you tell me if you know a standard
library for this, please.

Thank you for your effort and I will watch your program with interest.

Greetings
	Klaus Niederkrueger

A suggestion: The reason why I don't use Xmaple anymore was that they
switched from the nice Unix-interface to a windows interface. I explain:
In older versions everytime you made a plot, a new window was opened for
it. In their newer versions the plot is embedded into the worksheet and
you cannot move a subwindow out of the mainwindow. Though this at first
looks really very compact and elegant, I think is really antiproductive.
I think if you write a text it may be normal to have just one window
open, but for mathematics this is not the case.