Slightly off topic, but I am enquiring about suggestions for a package
of modest capability.
The background is that I offered to assist the editor of a related
publication to sundials - Horological Journal. (The British
Horological Institute has just celebrated its 150th anniversary.)
The
Dear Doug,
I am so riddled with prejudices about type-setting
equations, and mathematics in general, that it is
hard for me to give a temperate reply to your
enquiry...
Material often comes ... in Word, and it seems
that equations do not transfer reliably.
In my view, the Microsoft Equation
Word uses about the most non portable format you could
ever imagine, and there are actually some reasons for
that. In summary, many documents use a default font,
and when sent to another computer, that computer's
default fonts are often used. Tabs, and page setups
affect the layout, as does the
Douglas Bateman wrote:
Slightly off topic, but I am enquiring about suggestions for a package
of modest capability.
The background is that I offered to assist the editor of a related
publication to sundials - Horological Journal. (The British
Horological Institute has just
Douglas Bateman wrote:
Slightly off topic, but I am enquiring about suggestions for a package
of modest capability.
The background is that I offered to assist the editor of a related
publication to sundials - Horological Journal. (The British
Horological Institute has just
Doug,
Another option is MathType by Design Science. It claims to be an
extended version of the Microsoft Equation Editor, so it may have the
same problems that your editor is already encountering. It worked for
me when I last used it about five years ago.
Gordon
At 03:02 AM 6/19/2008,
Hi All (esp. John Davis, Mike Cowhan David Brown):
I just noticed something odd about the very famous stained glass sundial
that is known as The Nun Appleton Dial. I don't know why I never saw this
before. It slipped by right me.
Take a look at this graphic of two photographs:
I just had a thought.
Couldn't we tell if the black white photo is reversed if we could see how
the garden of the Nun Appleton looks today? If any of those trees that we
see in the black and white photo are still alive, then we could tell if the
photo is reversed.
The left and right
I think the b/w photo has to be reversed.
Here is the photo reversed in Photoshop -
http://www.rosscaldwell.com/images/astronomy/sgsundialrev.jpg
The inscription reads correctly from the inside now. Secondly, the colour photo
should have been taken from inside, since there is a major light
Hi John,
I think the photo has been reversed.
An aerial photograph on www.multimap.com shows only one tall tree near the
path. It is on the east of the path, not the west. I believe the house now
belongs to English Heritage.
Chris Lusby Taylor
51.4N 1.3W
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From:
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:35:21PM +0100, Frank King wrote:
Dear Doug,
I am so riddled with prejudices about type-setting
equations, and mathematics in general, that it is
hard for me to give a temperate reply to your
enquiry...
Material often comes ... in Word, and it seems
that
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