Re: typesetting fractions
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- Subject: [mg45861] Re: typesetting fractions
- From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 04:51:26 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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In article <buqmch$raa$1 at smc.vnet.net>, Garry Helzer <gah at math.umd.edu> wrote: > For the last few years I have used Mathematica exclusively for > technical writing, mostly because it gives me better control over > figure placement and keeps everything in a single file. That said, it > is nonetheless an aggravating experience in many ways. The > subscript/quotient font size problem is a daily irritation. Here's my > question. TeX does an excellent job in this regard. TeX has been around > since the '60s and is open source. Why doesn't someone at WRI just look > at how TeX does it and incorporate the rules? Why reinvent the > wheel especially if the wheels you produce in house always seem to have > corners on the rim? > > A personal bugaboo of mine is the spelling checker. I don't have > problems with the spelling checker in any other software, just > Mathematica. Ever since 3.0 I have been trying to teach it that > bivector is a word. No luck. It just keeps telling me to try bevatron > instead. I tell it to learn the word, it puts it in some user defined > dictionary, and then ignores it. > > I keep a copy of the Summer-Fall 1999 issue of Mathematica in Education > and Research in a file cabinet just so I can look up how to change an > unmatched bracket from pink to black whenever I want to define a > multiline function (p. 87). The best solution is to match unmatched brackets using \[AutoLeftMatch] or \[AutoRightMatch] > Indications are that someone at WRI wants to develop Mathematica into a > first rate technical publishing tool. It should be explained to them > that this is just a waste of time and talent if the use of the tool > is to be such a jealously guarded secret. > > If Mathematica is to have more than marginal use as a technical > publication system WRI needs to produce, in house or outhouse, a > Mathematica equivalent of The Joy of TeX. Cursory documentation and > scattered hints in journals will not do it. 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
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