Re: Page preview in Mathematica ?
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- Subject: [mg42895] Re: [mg42824] Page preview in Mathematica ?
- From: Selwyn Hollis <selwynh at earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 01:26:06 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Print preview should certainly be near the top of any wish list. (But
if you're fortunate enough to have a Mac w/OS X, printing to PDF is
almost as good.)
To any such wish list I'd also add, in no particular order:
* antialiasing of graphics!!
* flexible top/bottom cell margins
* serious undo functionality
* real unicode support (on the Mac anyway)
* better find/replace (e.g., replace all in selection)
* robust import of eps and pdf graphics
* less need for tweaking to make expressions look right; namely:
** better typesetting of fractions (size should not be connected
to sub/superscript multiplier)
** more consistent and reliable placement of sub/superscripts
** more consistent and reliable spacing
** more consistent and reliable sizing of summation and integral
signs
* kerning support
Some of this may be due to my own ignorance; I'll be happy to learn
that's true. (Except for the antialiasing issue---that's not up for
debate. The antiantialiasing luddites lost long ago.)
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Selwyn Hollis
http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis
On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 04:08 AM, Oliver Friedrich wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> I want to use Mathematica to make nice documentation. Therefore I'd
> appreciate if I could have a page preview function. I want to see my
> document on a screen as WYSIWYG, including page breaks, headers,
> footers,
> etc... as it is done in Word.
>
> Is there functionality or a simple workaround.
>
> Thank you
>
> Oliver Friedrich
>