Re: Trying to use Mathematica as "word processor" for my math homework
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- Subject: [mg44452] Re: Trying to use Mathematica as "word processor" for my math homework
- From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 04:52:22 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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In article <bofsl1$5ko$1 at smc.vnet.net>, Steve Gray <stevebg at adelphia.net> wrote: > I have found Mathematica to be so incompetent at basic typesetting, > and its behavior so bizarre and unpredicatble, that I would never use > it for what you are doing. I know how to set math in Mathematica (up to its > severe limitations), Do you mind listing these? I have never found the basic typesetting behavior bizarre or unpredicatble, so I'm interested to understand what problems you've encountered. > in Tex (non-wysiwyg), and in Word. It's not a good route for publishing, > but I think Word and Equation Editor are the easiest and most reliable > of the methods. I find this suprising. Equation Editor is fine but the behavior of Word certainly can be bizarre, unpredicatble, and really annoying! > I had a paper in the March 03 Math Monthly, which I originally wrote in > Word and translated to Tex with the help of some automated software. All of my publications since 1995 have resulted from (semi-) automatic conversion of Notebooks to TeX. > Keep in mind that not many people agree with me on this. To me, the principal strength of Mathematica's typesetting is the unification between form and function. Typeset equations, or at least parts of them, are understood by the Mathematica kernel. This is not the case with TeX or Word. Also, some journals are starting to accept Notebooks, which simplifies the conversion process. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Abbott Phone: +61 8 9380 2734 School of Physics, M013 Fax: +61 8 9380 1014 The University of Western Australia (CRICOS Provider No 00126G) 35 Stirling Highway Crawley WA 6009 mailto:paul at physics.uwa.edu.au AUSTRALIA http://physics.uwa.edu.au/~paul