--- Jay Belanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> C Y <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ...
> >> It [breqn] can't be perfect, but it does seem to work
> >> pretty well in most cases. I haven't heard of anyone
> >> working on it since Michael Downes; too bad.
> >
> > I don't think anyone wants to work on it until the license
> > is cleared up, even assuming we've got people both
> > interested and that skilled in TeX.
>
> I was hoping someone at AMS would do some more work on it.
That's a point. I wonder if it was an official project?
> > If need be presumably we can implement the ideas in our own
> > axiom.breakequations.sty file, but that will be very, very
> > nontrivial :-/.
>
> I suspect if we pushed the AMS hard enough, we could get
> breqn under a fairly liberal license.
Sounds like a plan. Anybody know anyone in AMS to contact about the
issue?
> > No worries - I'm rather behind myself. I'm still writing
> > the text for the unit package, and have a ways to go even
> > on that. (Arrrrgh. Must... finish... units... and...
> > move... on... to errors...)
>
> Speaking of non-trivialities, I didn't realize how much was
> involved in researching a units package until I saw what you
> had done. Nice job so far!
Thanks! Hopefully I'm on the right track. I think once I've gotten
the rest of the dimensional analysis algorithm written up I might be
able to start looking at actual code along with the text. Reviewing
the other packages out there is probably going to be a bit of an
ongoing thing, although I will try and write a piece about the Maple
package RSN. And I also want to give the sistyle package a try - if
that's as useful as I'm hoping it is I would like to expand Axiom's tex
abilities to output sistyle formatting for units.
Heh - actually, that raises another point. How should packages deal
with subject specific LaTeX? Say, for example, that I want to use a
chemical formula style file for a chemical equations package, just like
I want to use sistyle for units. How do I teach Axiom's TeX routines
new tricks? Domain specific tex output?
Cheers,
CY
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