Feature Requests item #1675518, was opened at 2007-03-07 02:15 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by phroggie You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=1675518&group_id=235
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 7 Private: No Submitted By: Chadders (chaddersphi) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Mathematics Notation Initial Comment: This may seem like a unique request, but successful programs have been so because they have been able to provide alternatives and often better features than other similar programs. Take MSN and Gaim for example. MSN can't run in Linux without Wine, also MSN can only run the MSN protocol (also Yahoo protocol now). Gaim bettered this by allowing multi-protocols and being able to run in both Windows and Linux. I propose a mathematical notation feature allowing people to view something like this: f(x)=(x^2+3x-5)/7 like this: http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r317/chaddersphi/Linux/mathsexample.png My suggestion would be to use the OpenOffice.org Math calculator standards. For example: [MATH]f(x)={x^2+3x-5} over 7[/MATH] or /math f(x)={x^2+3x-5} over 7 or simmilar. This feature will be useful for people talking about maths in school, university and make the sharing of mathematics easy. Also the use of the OpenOffice.org Math standard will make it easy to copy equations into OpenOffice.org documents (and keeping with the open source community). I'm working on getting my programming skills good but for the moment I will leave it in the capable hands of the Gaim staff. Many thanks, - Chadders. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Lee Roach (phroggie) Date: 2007-03-07 11:33 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=471347 Originator: NO There exist a couple of plugins which attempt to answer this need. Take a look through the plugin tracker, and you may find one like the "Instant Math (LaTeX)" plugin https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=390395&aid=1586950&group_id=235 Offhand, I don't know if any support OoO calc formatting, but an existing plugin could probably be modified to parse it easily enough. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=1675518&group_id=235 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Gaim-features mailing list Gaim-features@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gaim-features
