Re: How does MathReader work?
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg43348] Re: [mg43337] How does MathReader work?
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 07:13:21 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Perhaps you are really asking for a third product, between MathReader and Mathematica in functionality -- with pricing somewhere between those two. 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/ > > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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- How does MathReader work?
- From: "David Park" <djmp@earthlink.net>
- How does MathReader work?