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ddave · 03-31-2009, 06:03 PM

Great discussion on displaying scientific/technical text! I'm also leaning towards the 700 to display technical PDF's (physics, mat.sci. etc). A few comments. I'm not sure if the 700 allows comments to be entered and transferred to the SD card (or computer), actually requested in another post as well.
Since the days of DOS and a science document editor called ChiWriter, I've been frustrated by the difficulty of entering equations. Creating an image to embed is cumbersome. Why can't we have a font of math/science symbols? Then, an equation could be entered by loading the appropriate font? An eReader or a computer could do that.

03-31-2009, 06:03 PM	#24
ddave Enthusiast Posts: 35 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Minnesota, USA Device: none	Great discussion on displaying scientific/technical text! I'm also leaning towards the 700 to display technical PDF's (physics, mat.sci. etc). A few comments. I'm not sure if the 700 allows comments to be entered and transferred to the SD card (or computer), actually requested in another post as well. Since the days of DOS and a science document editor called ChiWriter, I've been frustrated by the difficulty of entering equations. Creating an image to embed is cumbersome. Why can't we have a font of math/science symbols? Then, an equation could be entered by loading the appropriate font? An eReader or a computer could do that.