From kde-edu  Sat Aug 22 19:11:54 2009
From: Vladimir Kuznetsov <ks.vladimir () gmail ! com>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:11:54 +0000
To: kde-edu
Subject: Re: [kde-edu]: inclusion of MathematiK in kdeedu
Message-Id: <200908222211.54301.ks.vladimir () gmail ! com>
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Hello Alexander,

The idea of such program have already popped up several times before: it means 
there is some demand for it. As for myself, I like the description of the 
program (however I have not compiled/tested it yet - will do it soon).

My vote is for inclusion.

On Friday 21 August 2009 02:45:13 Alexander Rieder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For the last months I've been coding on an application in Playground called
> MathematiK(but I'm open for better name suggestions). It's a frontend for
> other free software mathematics projects, giving them a nice KDE-based
> Worksheet view like Maple or Mathematica offer. Lately it has matured quite
> a bit, so I decided to ask you for inclusion into the KDE Edu 4.4 release,
> it's not perfect yet, but following the "release early, release often"
> philosophy I'm really looking forward to get more people testing it. How do
> you think about this? What are the steps I have to make to get MathematiK
> included?
>
> Some of the current features are:
> - Nice Worksheet view for evaulating Expression
> - View of plotting results inside the worksheet
> - Easy plugin based structure to add different Backends
> - Backends for:
>   - the Sage mathematics software (http://www.sagemath.org)
>   - the Maxima Computer Algebra System (http://maxima.sourceforge.net/)
>   - the R project for Statistical computing (http://www.r-project.org/)
> - GetHotNewStuff integration to up/download example worksheets
> - Typesetting of mathematical formulas using LaTeX
> - Syntax highlighting depending on the chosen backend
> - Plugin based assistant dialogs for common tasks (like integrating a
> function or entering a matrix)
>
> Cheers,
> Alexander Rieder
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With the best regards,
Vladimir Kuznetsov
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