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Re: Mathematica doesn't know what it's doing.

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  • Subject: [mg67182] Re: [mg67146] Mathematica doesn't know what it's doing.
  • From: bsyehuda at gmail.com
  • Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 02:18:51 -0400 (EDT)
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I would recommend on testing publicon.
It is a based on Mathematica kernel. It has all the qualities you need.
All is done with Mathematica.
you can download an evaluation version from the WRI site to check this for
free.
Even if you will not use it, you probably get some good ideas what you can
do in a style file

good luck

yehuda

On 6/10/06, Steven T. Hatton <hattons at globalsymmetry.com> wrote:
>
> I have come to the conclusion that part of my difficulty in getting
> Mathematica to do what I want is because Mathematica doesn't know what
> it's
> doing.  That is not to say that Mathematica is doing something wrong.  I
> am
> speaking in the sense that Russell used when he said: "Thus [pure]
> mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we
> are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true."
>
> For the most part, Mathematica is a-semantic.  That is to say, it is
> strongly biased toward syntax.  This accounts for its strength as a
> mathematics tool.  To a great extent, mathematics is about manipulating
> symbols with algebraic uniformity.
>
> In fields such as document processing, general purpose programming,
> electronics, systems integration, and even differential geometry, where I
> have more experience, semantics tend to dominate.
>
> So what exactly is it that I am having trouble with?  A good example has
> little to do with Mathematica, per se.  It has to do with document
> preparation. I think in terms of book, part, chapter, section, subsection,
> theorem, definition, axiom, example, paragraph, etc.  These are nested
> concepts.  I want to write a theorem and have it contained in a
> TheoremBox.
> I know that Mathematica arranges some textual units hierarchically, but it
> does this indirectly through the use of GroupBoxes.
>
> It may well be that I could accomplish what I want through the creation of
> style sheets.  There are many existing style sheets available, but they
> seem to lack this semantic aspect of document organization.  There is a
> lot
> more I could say on this topic, but before I continue, I would like to
> know
> what others think about these matters.
>
> If anybody knows of a good source which really explains the art of
> document
> creation using Mathematica, I am very interested.
> --
> http://www.mathematica-users.org/
> http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/math/bmwcs/master.html
> http://www.w3.org/Math/
> http://230nsc1.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html
>
>


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