Hi all, Now that the whole output stuff has been revamped in CVS and the way seems paved for OpenMath, LaTeX, TeXmacs and other sorts of output, somebody might be interested in what Przemek Borys <pborys@dione.ids.pl> just posted to comp.os.linux.announce (see below). Beware that it *definitely* needs to support some proper linebreaks to be useful, though! Regards -richy. -- Richard Kreckel <Richard.Kreckel@Uni-Mainz.DE> <http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~kreckel/> EHLO! Eqascii is an ascii equation renderer. That means, it renders equations, given in a form similar to latex to ascii representation. I hope that this program can be (or rather will be in the future) useful i.e. in porting scientific documents to web without converting complex equations to images, or simply if one needs to represent some equation on a newsgroup :). To make it more clear how does it work, here's an example: [pborys@p-soft eqascii]$ ./eqascii '\prod_{i=1}^{\infty}\sqrt{e^{b+c}-\frac{\left[a+\frac{a+b^{3}}{4a-3c}\r ight]}{a_1-\sqrt{2}}}+ \left|\begin{array} \frac{8}{2} & 1 & 3 \\ 2 & 3 & \left|\begin{array} 1 & 2 \\ 3 & 4 \end{array}\right| \\ 3 & \sqrt{5} & 12 \end{array}\right|' ________________________ | | | [ 3 ] | 8 | | [ a + b ] | - 1 3 | | [a + -------] | 2 | ___ oo | b + c [ 4a - 3c] | | | | |e - --------------- + | | 1 2 | | | | i=1 | _ | 2 3 | | | | a - \|2 | | 3 4 | | \| 1 | | | 3 _ 12 | | \|5 | [pborys@p-soft eqascii]$ The program can be downloaded from http://dione.ids.pl/~pborys/software/linux/eqascii-0.3.0.tar.gz (or simply http://dione.ids.pl/~pborys/software/linux/ in case the filename would change) The program is very small for now (30K of code, compressed to 8K), but it's usability is IMO good enough to announce ;) - -- ____\___\___ (_(\|,|_|,|_ Gassho! [http://dione.ids.pl/~pborys][pinfo&mr home] | | |. [PTM,teksty o zen,programowaniu,moje sf,xfaq_pl,inne]