I'm looking for a replacement for MacKichan's Scientific Workplace (http://www.mackichan.com/). It's pretty expensive (read: not free) and it's actually a little bit overkill for what I need. I just need to be able to enter equations in a format that has summations and square root symbols and fractions and such all properly formatted. I want the final result to look something like LaTeX, but I don't want to enter commands and strings for symbols. I'd like to be able to hit, for example, ctrl-h for a superscript, and even ctrl-h again for a superscript on that superscript, and I'd like to be able to hit ctrl-r for a square root symbol that allows me to put the root number in the proper place and have it automatically adjust the size of the root symbol as I put things under and around it. Scientific Workplace also offers integration with Maple or whatever other CAS you like, but I don't really really need that, as there are plenty of linux substitutes that I can use on their own. What I need now is just something that will let me take beautiful mathematical and scientific notes very quickly.

-Sargon

If you don't like entering TeX (LaTeX) commands but like the output
try lyx (klyx) ... I don't know whether it will do your ctrl-h for
you, but it might be configurable enough to achieve this.


Cheers,
Tink

I hadn't heard of that one. Klyx looks pretty dead (unless I'm mistaken?), but it seems Lyx now has a gui. That might be better for my XFCE setup anyway. "Configurable Keybindings" sounds good. It's got a lot of dependencies, but I'll give it an emerge, have dinner, then see if that works out. Thanks for the pointer.

-IMSargon

Three and a half hours later, it's almost done compiling. I got the Windows version in the mean time, though. It looks pretty good. It'll take some getting used to, but then, what doesn't? It seems to have all the features I need. Thanks for your help.

-Sargon

Glad I could be of assistance, and thanks for the positive feed-back! :}



Cheers,
Tink