equation editor/viewer for Palm?

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Jonathan,

You could use our product 'Formulae 1' for this if you
have a supported PalmOne device (Treo 600,
Tungsten C, Tungsten E, Tungsten T3).

http://www.poliplus.com/PalmOS_F1.htm


Carlos.

Jonathan Epstein wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I frequently attend scientific seminars and take my notes into the Palm's
> MemoPad.
>
> I would like to have a way to compose equations on the Palm and view them in
> their graphical form (also on the Palm). PC-based analogous solutions
> include LaTeX and the MS Word Equation Editor.
>
> My understanding is that there is no Palm or Java port of LaTeX. Googling I
> found ImagiWorks for Palm, but this doesn't seem that this shows a graphical
> view of an equation, rather it shows graphs of equations.
>
> Thanks for any pointers.
>
> Jonathan

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Looks cool, Carlos, although not quite as powerful-looking as the Word
Equation editor, for example, at least at a cursory glance. Maybe you
should post the manual on your website so potential users can get a better
sense of what the product can do.

I have a Treo 270, but will take your product into account when considering
to which Palm I should upgrade.

Jonathan

"Carlos Bazzarella" <cbazzaTAKE@OUTpoliplus.com> wrote in message
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> Jonathan,
>
> You could use our product 'Formulae 1' for this if you
> have a supported PalmOne device (Treo 600,
> Tungsten C, Tungsten E, Tungsten T3).
>
> http://www.poliplus.com/PalmOS_F1.htm
>
>
> Carlos.
>
> Jonathan Epstein wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I frequently attend scientific seminars and take my notes into the
Palm's
> > MemoPad.
> >
> > I would like to have a way to compose equations on the Palm and view
them in
> > their graphical form (also on the Palm). PC-based analogous solutions
> > include LaTeX and the MS Word Equation Editor.
> >
> > My understanding is that there is no Palm or Java port of LaTeX.
Googling I
> > found ImagiWorks for Palm, but this doesn't seem that this shows a
graphical
> > view of an equation, rather it shows graphs of equations.
> >
> > Thanks for any pointers.
> >
> > Jonathan
>
>

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At 2004-05-05T20:06:13Z, "Jonathan Epstein" <Jonathan_Epstein@nih.gov> writes:

> Good point, Karl, and I had considered that approach as well.

"Kirk", but who's keeping track?

> It might be possible to draw this equations in realtime if some of these
> frequently-used symbols were pre-drawn.

I don't know of any such program, but I'm not convinced that having a
parallel input method would be significantly quicker. At a minimum, you'd
have to select the symbol and then paste it where you wanted it, and I'm not
sure I could do that faster than I could draw a pi or sigma.

What about something like TealPaint that's basically a miniature graphics
editor, and which lets you flip between screens fairly quickly? You could
open a new "file" for each equation if need be, and can select a very narrow
(even single-pixel) "brush" for drawing small stuff.
- --
Kirk Strauser
The Strauser Group
Open. Solutions. Simple.
http://www.strausergroup.com/
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Mea culpa, Kyle.

Johnson ;-)

"Kirk Strauser" <kirk@strauser.com> wrote in message
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At 2004-05-05T20:06:13Z, "Jonathan Epstein" <Jonathan_Epstein@nih.gov>
writes:

> Good point, Karl, and I had considered that approach as well.

"Kirk", but who's keeping track?

Archived from groups: comp.sys.palmtops.pilot,comp.text.tex (More info?)

Jonathan Epstein <Jonathan_Epstein@nih.gov> wrote:
: I frequently attend scientific seminars and take my notes into the Palm's
: MemoPad.
:
: I would like to have a way to compose equations on the Palm and view them in
: their graphical form (also on the Palm). PC-based analogous solutions
: include LaTeX and the MS Word Equation Editor.
:
: My understanding is that there is no Palm or Java port of LaTeX. Googling I
: found ImagiWorks for Palm, but this doesn't seem that this shows a graphical
: view of an equation, rather it shows graphs of equations.

I've seen somebody mention installing my free gpl'ed mimetex program
( www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html ) on a Palm-class device, but the
closest I seem to google up is an asian page
http://www.hyuki.com/yukiwiki/wiki [...] e=PalmWiki
that I can't even read. Nevertheless, at some point in time there
was some more elaborate discussion of mimetex-on-palm in english
that I came across following back an HTTP_REFERER to my page.

And the overall strategy should be pretty easy, writing a small
wrapper script that uses two existing command-line switches already
available in mimetex. For example, if you have a Linux box with
ImageMagick, then build mimetex.cgi and type the command line
./mimetex.cgi -d -o "\LARGE \int\limits_0^\infty e^{-x^2}dx" | display &
which will bring up a little box containing an image of the
expression between the quotes.
To see more examples, point your browser to my mimetex page
( www.forkosh.com/mimetex.html ) and click on any of the examples
in the examples section. The code for that example will be pasted
in the text box, and you can cut-and-paste it from there into
the shell command
./mimetex.cgi -d -o "paste-example-here" | display &
that you have set up and waiting to go in an xterm window.

So, if there's an ansi-standard C compiler for Palm, and
if you have some gif display utility for it, then mimetex
should be able to do most of what you want. It's completely
stand-alone, with no other dependencies, and doesn't require
a (La)TeX installation or fonts. So it should install and run
okay on a Palm, though I'm not 100% certain of that. Let me
know what happens if you give it a try.
--
John Forkosh ( mailto: j@f.com where j=john and f=forkosh )