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math_christie
Flightless Bird
I teach High school math (alg 2 - cal1) using my onenote tablet through a
projector. And we have problems doing matrices and other math symbol
format-specific problems (text breaking up, moving, and sometimes just
disappering altogether).
Question: Does anyone know if there is a specific feature that could be
disabled to keep this from happening? I didn't find anything obvious... Thks
christie
"Mike Davies" wrote:
> Chris H. wrote:
> > Do you happen to be on a Tablet PC? If so, take a look at the Education
> > Pack for Windows XP Tablet PC here:
> > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...16-b526-487e-919d-0bce568def39&DisplayLang=en
> > It includes the Equation Writer which may help you. If you're not on a
> > Tablet PC, it won't assist you.
>
> For anything more advanced than (or even up to) "O-level" ("high-school"
> ? in the States) level maths, the Equation writer won't help either.
>
> It understands sin, cos and tan + greek letters, but not nabla, partial
> diffeential signs nor underscores to denote vectors/matrices not any of
> the other myriad symbols used by mathematicins/physicists/engineers.
>
> Equation writer is basically hopeless for any realistic imput of
> mathematics. Apart from anything else the size of the input panel is
> miniscule and the window cannot be resized. It also does not directly
> export the converted maths to another program like Word but instead goes
> via the clipboard (spelt slow, clunky and horrible). I suppose I
> ought to say that it's better than nothing only it's not.
>
> ISTM that this is really not just a OneNote problem but that Windows
> generally, and the TabletPC in particular, needs an application that
> allows easy transcription of under/graduate level mathematics.
> Obviously, a prominent application for OneNote is taking lecture notes
> and this omission is very marked since Maths is ubiquitous in the classroom.
>
> Of course no external program will be much use for OneNote until it
> sports technology that permits plug-ins to do their own handwriting
> recognition according to their particular specialism, can anyone here
> say if that is coming in the next version ?
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Mike Davies
> Managing Director
> Block-X Limited
> <http
/www.block-x.co.uk>
>
projector. And we have problems doing matrices and other math symbol
format-specific problems (text breaking up, moving, and sometimes just
disappering altogether).
Question: Does anyone know if there is a specific feature that could be
disabled to keep this from happening? I didn't find anything obvious... Thks
christie
"Mike Davies" wrote:
> Chris H. wrote:
> > Do you happen to be on a Tablet PC? If so, take a look at the Education
> > Pack for Windows XP Tablet PC here:
> > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...16-b526-487e-919d-0bce568def39&DisplayLang=en
> > It includes the Equation Writer which may help you. If you're not on a
> > Tablet PC, it won't assist you.
>
> For anything more advanced than (or even up to) "O-level" ("high-school"
> ? in the States) level maths, the Equation writer won't help either.
>
> It understands sin, cos and tan + greek letters, but not nabla, partial
> diffeential signs nor underscores to denote vectors/matrices not any of
> the other myriad symbols used by mathematicins/physicists/engineers.
>
> Equation writer is basically hopeless for any realistic imput of
> mathematics. Apart from anything else the size of the input panel is
> miniscule and the window cannot be resized. It also does not directly
> export the converted maths to another program like Word but instead goes
> via the clipboard (spelt slow, clunky and horrible). I suppose I
> ought to say that it's better than nothing only it's not.
>
> ISTM that this is really not just a OneNote problem but that Windows
> generally, and the TabletPC in particular, needs an application that
> allows easy transcription of under/graduate level mathematics.
> Obviously, a prominent application for OneNote is taking lecture notes
> and this omission is very marked since Maths is ubiquitous in the classroom.
>
> Of course no external program will be much use for OneNote until it
> sports technology that permits plug-ins to do their own handwriting
> recognition according to their particular specialism, can anyone here
> say if that is coming in the next version ?
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Mike Davies
> Managing Director
> Block-X Limited
> <http
/www.block-x.co.uk>>