Re: How does MathReader work?
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg43360] Re: [mg43337] How does MathReader work?
- From: Selwyn Hollis <selwynh at earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 07:13:35 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
My impression is that MathReader is basically the front end without the kernel. I agree wholeheartedly that the hypothetical MathReader you described would be vastly superior. But it's hard to imagine WRI giving it (or anything other than cripple-ware) away for free, and I doubt many people would want to pay for it. ----- Selwyn Hollis http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 04:10 AM, David Park wrote: > Dear MathGroup and WRI, > > I am interesting in knowing more precisely what can be done with > MathReader. > I suspect that it doesn't do what I really want but the documentation > is a > bit vague. > > This is what I would like MathReader to do: > > 1) The MathReader user should be able to open a Mathematica notebook > with > all output and graphics deleted and then evaluate the notebook and > generate > the graphics and animation. > > 2) The MathReader user should be able to install third party packages > and > applications, which could be utilized by the notebooks he reads. > > 3) But the MathReader user could not edit or change any notebook. He > could > not type in his own statements. He would be strictly limited to > evaluating > notebooks created by full Mathematica owners. > > If MathReader cannot evaluate a notebook, then all the graphics, > animation > and traditional form output must be embedded and this means that for > all > practical purposes the notebooks are too large for routine > transmission. In > that case MathReader can only be used for trivial purposes. > > David Park > djmp at earthlink.net > http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ > >