Abstract
WITS-Math is a mathematical equation formatting tool in WITS, a multilingual document preparation environment. WITS-Math includes a library manager and an equation formatter. The main task of WITS-Math is to format diversities of mathematical equations and organize them into an equation library used by other tools in the WITS environment.
WITS-Math is a direct manipulation mathematics editor. It uses syntax directed markup language as the internal representation, and provides an interactive WYSIWYG interface for users to format equations. WITS-Math provides an equation access mechanism. Other tools can access equations in a library by cross-reference from a source file or through data exchange without knowing the structure of equation libraries. The common data structure and the rendering object in the WITS platform ensure that the formatted equations can be directly used by other tools.
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Zheng, M., Lu, J. Preparing mathematical equations in a document preparation environment. J. of Compt. Sci. & Technol. 9, 168–174 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02939498
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