Trying to build a good math interface

And failing because I have no idea how to start.


Take a look at the Maple interface. It's the best i've seen so far.

http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/6222/asdfad0.jpg


You can click on the palette to make it output any symbol you want. Editing the symbol is easy. Just click on the section you want & type into the textbox


Any ideas on how to do something like this? Maybe an example project? I don't need it to actually calculate anything. I only care about the look.

Thanks in advance,
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Edit: I should probably mention I have some experience with .net windows forms.

Have you considered that there are a lot of these around already? Microsoft Office, Star Office (if you don't want to pay) etc... This is a non-trivial task, although I would be tempted to take a 'modular' approach. Identify combinations of elements (ab, a/b etc.) and allow the elements to contain other element combinations. As a simple example, from the elements shown, you could create "ab/cd".

Earlier question still holds though - Why?

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Originally Posted by michaels-r

Have you considered that there are a lot of these around already? Microsoft Office, Star Office (if you don't want to pay) etc... This is a non-trivial task, although I would be tempted to take a 'modular' approach. Identify combinations of elements (ab, a/b etc.) and allow the elements to contain other element combinations. As a simple example, from the elements shown, you could create "ab/cd".

Earlier question still holds though - Why?

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I'm trying to make something that helps with generating equations on the web. Getting it to function properly doesn't seem as hard as getting it to display something.

http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/Eq2Img.asp

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Originally Posted by Mario F.

http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/Eq2Img.asp

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It's fairly strong & i'm already working with tex, but as far as I know you can't edit the display. You have to work on the code. Maple allows you to do both.

I still don't understand what do you mean by "editing the display"...

You plan to have a live on-site equation editor?

http://rogercortesi.com/eqn/index.php online ones perhaps. What you suggest is not trivial.

This ( http://www.nought.de/tex2im.html ) explains how to work it, syntax will need some looking at though.

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Originally Posted by Mario F.

I still don't understand what do you mean by "editing the dishttp://cboard.cprogramming.com/index.php
C Boardplay"...

You plan to have a live on-site equation editor?

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I'm finding it hard to explain. You click right on the equation to add stuff. It's very fast & it's not necesssary to know any code like in latex.

Some more examples from maple
http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/4760/1ep1.jpg
http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/8139/2kp9.jpg
http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/2397/3la4.jpg

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Originally Posted by twomers

http://rogercortesi.com/eqn/index.php online ones perhaps. What you suggest is not trivial.

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Yeah i'm getting that feeling.