mailing-list for TeXmacs Users

[Henri Lesourd <address@hidden>]

> It would be most awesome if TeXmacs had the ability to work with a
> drawing pad or touch-screen and stylus so that one could do math "by
> hand" more like you do with a pencil and paper, rather than via a
> keyboard.
>
> It's not a new idea:
>
> @TechReport{Minsky63:MathScopePartI,
>  author       = {Marvin Minsky},
>  title         = {MATHSCOPE Part I: A Proposal for a Mathematical 
> Manipulation-Display System},
>  institution  = {MIT},
>  year          = 1963,
>  month         = {Nov},
>  url           = 
> {ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/pdf/AIM-061.pdf},
>  note          = {MIT AIM-61},
>  annote       = {This is a scanned copy of Prof. Marvin Minsky's MIT AI Memo 
> 61, typewritten in
>                  1963. It is very difficult to make out much of it, due to 
> poor quality
>                  scanning. \citep*[See][]{Minsky03:MathsMitAi}  It discusses 
> a very early computer
>                  algebra system with a user interface that displayed math 
> notation on an
>                  oscilloscope, and allowed selection and limited manipulation 
> of expressions using
>                  a light pen.}
> }
>
>  
I really had an extremely hard time 8-( to read it, so I cannot
tell you right now what I think. There are 3 or 4 pages that are
completely blank, & too bad, these ones are among the main ones !

I will perhaps look at it later again, and after several
careful (that's the appropriate word !) readings, I will
perhaps be able to come with some ideas to add in this
thread...