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Re: How does MathReader work?

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  • 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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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/
> 
> 

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