On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 06:03:16PM +0900, Jan Peters wrote: > >Soso. What font do you suggest for parantheses of arbitrary size? > > Hm, some truetype font? How does latex do that?
It creates e.g. large parantheses from lots of smaller parts. There is no single '100 pt high left brace' glyph. > To be quite honest, I do not know which font is right - but there must > be some truetype font which does that job ... If you don't know, how should I know? > >Have you _edited_ formulas in TeXMacs (not just entered a few symbols)? > > Yes, I wrote one conference paper in it. Entering equations in TexMacs > works nice when done over the menus (my problems with texmacs were the > keyboard codes (hard to learn, clash with Mac X11), I am not talking about entering, but editing. Moving things around a bit, re-arrange arrays and stuff like that. > >Now tell me what's more important when writing math: Being able to edit > >a formula or good looks on screen. > > Both in one - Texmacs manages that, SWP does to some extend too! If LyX > can look as good as SWP I am happy, but I do not see why LyX should not > use the only thing where TexMacs works better? I am sure Joris and David > (the main developers from Texmacs) would allow lyx to integrate their > equation drawing.... You can let LaTeX draw your equations (except for the one holding the current cursor) within LyX by using the preview feature. Nice parantheses, nice arrows... Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson or B. Franklin or both...)
