Re: How does MathReader work?
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg43363] Re: How does MathReader work?
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 07:13:39 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
- References: <bicgsd$212$1@smc.vnet.net>
- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi David,
it is a woderfull idea to turn Mathematica into free software,
because everyone can use a ASCII editor and create a notebook
with
Notebook[{Cell[TextData["<<ReadAnySequenceOfMathematicaCommands.m"],"Input"]}]
perhaps WRI will not like the idea ...
MathReader is a cutted FrontEnd without a kernel and with out the
input/edit feature of the true FrontEnd or Publicon
Regards
Jens
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/