(maybe tap on the incorrectly-recognized letter and have it bring up a list of nearest matches) The input area should draw a vector-graphic with your pen strokes, and after the stroke is complete, attempt to recognize it after-the-fact, allowing for you to correct it. write very large) that then gets recognized and transferred to the document. I think for a tablet the easiest thing to do would be to have an "input" area that is very large (i.e. After adding strokes for the roman alphabet, greek alphabet, hebrew alphabet, numbers, and symbols, you might as well have just tried to recognize the symbols in the first place.
I usually use straight TeX for my papers and presentations so I can manipulate things at a lower level, and use some macros developed by/for physics people.Īs to extending graphitti, I'd think that this would be a losing proposition. My girlfriend now uses it exclusively to write papers (beats the crap out of bloated M$ Word or Staroffice). It's math-entry and rendering is the best I've seen yet in a user interface. I have used LyX also (front end for LaTeX), and it is quite good. And it has CAS backends for Maxima and GiNaC! Wow! And it does anti-aliased fonts! Is it using TeX rendering to render the entire user interface? The interface is really pretty. This is really cool, thanks for the pointer. (f it were up to me I'd look into some sort of Wiki system that supports mathematical notation - hit a search engines for details, here's one hit. Your user base is likely to have some strong opinions and presumably has some experience with what works for them and what doesn't. Whatever the case I'd wait until I was in place, see what's being used now, how effective it is and what directions present themselves. Personally I'd invest in a good computing infrastructure, encourage the researchers to network with their peers & discover solutions that suit them, or failing that undertake to write/sponsor an open tool that would facilitate the collaboration you're looking for. For voice the telephone is universal & standardized, video has a number of reasonable standards with some degree of interoperability. Standard protocols, not specific "solutions".Īs part of that you'll presumably want a system that supports both pen-based graphics (the classic "scribbled on a napkin") as well as more structured mathematical layout (as used by TeX, MathML or Mathematica.) Really you'll need whatever folks express themselves most easily in. With that in mind your goal is likely to be platform independence, not Linux-specific solutions. Electric-chalkboards are a dime a dozen - talk to your purchasing person.įrankly I'd not approach it from "I like Linux how can we use it" direction but rather from "What are my researchers comfortable with and how can I support that?" As you noted this is about collaboration you're going to need to interoperate with a large number of systems not under your control.
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