I stumbled upon a nice feature in the ascii drawing software named JavE at the following link. I used version 5 which was admittedly in test mode and behaved a little awkwardly for me. But it was very easy to produce the desired result. If you do download this Java application, look at the file file:///Volumes/JavE%205.0/docs/formula2/formula2.html .
http://www.jave.de/ For example, I took one of the examples from the jwiki and recreated it as ascii. http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Testing The following line was my input. {[{x-a}/N]^-q}/{Gamma (-q)} sum{j=0..N-1;{{Gamma (j-g)}/{Gamma (j+1)}}) f(x-j[{x-a}/N]) And the following lines were my output. _ _ -q __ | x - a | N - 1 | ' | ----- | --- | / _ _ \ |_ N _| \ | (j - g) | | x - a | | --------------- > -------------- f| x - j | ----- | | __ / __ \ |_ N _| / | ' --- | ' | j = 0 | | (-q) | (j + 1) -- (B=) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
