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- Path: sparky!uunet!meaddata!sdw
- From: sdw@meaddata.com (Stephen Williams)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: DOS emulation
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 17:06:15 GMT
- Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
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- John Ryan (john@postmaster@hq.af.mil) wrote:
- :
- : --
- : The gnu people are putting together a package called jacal.
- : This is a symbolic math processor. I was looking at making a
- : troff2jackal and back again translator then patching the adrew ez
- : program eq to send the troff code to it for evaluation return and
- : display. This would be a WYSIWIG (almost) way of evaluating
- : equations.
- :
- : Want to help?
- : -------
- : John Ryan john@hq.af.mil ..uunet!hq!john
- What about GNU Emacs Calc?
-
- It's supposed to be 80%+ of Mathematica.
-
- On typesetting, I used Calc in batch mode to process huge (1500Char)
- fortran equations to tex (since Calc understands a bunch of formats
- and will convert) and then displaying nearly realtime with xdvi. Some
- were 11+ screens wide.
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- sdw
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