Re: Formula Output
- To: mathgroup at christensen.cybernetics.net
- Subject: [mg736] Re: [mg648] Formula Output
- From: Paul E Howland <PEHOWLAND at taz.dra.hmg.gb>
- Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 09:00:49 +0200 (IST)
On 6 Apr 1995, James Leno wrote: > Does anyone know of any kind of program that will take text output > from Mathematica and turn it onto graphical symbols, like in MathType? I > think even an Apple Script would do the trick (if Mathtype is scriptable > in any way). I've just got hold of Tom Wickham-Jones' new book - "Mathematica Graphics, Techniques & Applications", ISBN 0-387-94047-2. This has been written on an, as yet, unreleased version of Mathematica (ie. something higher than V2.2). He gives examples of two new formatting types, StandardForm and TraditionalForm, which are used like FortranForm, etc. StandardForm appears to typeset Mathematica text using mathematical symbols, but retaining the Mathematica syntax - eg. Sin[Alpha]^2 would be typeset as Sin[\alpha]^2, although the Alpha actually becomes the Greek symbol, whereas TraditionalForm does the full works, writing the expression in traditional mathematical notation, thus Sin[Alpha]^2 would be typeset as sin^2(Alpha). Sorry, it's hard to explain on an ASCII terminal, but the results look good. Basically, the results look comparable to what you would achieve with LaTeX. It also allows one to mix fonts and symbols, etc., when labelling graphs, which should solve people's problems. So, I guess if you're patient, the next release of Mathematica will do what you want. Does anyone from WRI care to speculate on when we'll see this new release?! Paul E Howland Long Range Ground Radar Systems Section tel. +44 (0)1684 895767 CSS2 Division, Room BY209 fax. +44 (0)1684 896315 Defence Research Agency email: PEHOWLAND at DRA.HMG.GB Malvern, Worcs, WR14 3PS, UK. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------