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    Windows Math Input Panel

    Hexus,

    I’ve just discovered a cool Win 7 feature, especially useful for those with tablets and I wanted to share it with you; Math Input Panel. If only I had known this earlier, would have saved hours in writing derivations of dynamic motion though word

    You can find the math input panel under accessories on Windows 7, there isn’t anything stopping you from using a mouse but it may be a tablet machine only feature, although you should be able to get around this by heading to Windows features and 'turning on' tablet options.

    Some quick examples:

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    Re: Windows Math Input Panel

    I've seen this before, but I can never get the thing I've written in the panel out into a word document.
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    Re: Windows Math Input Panel

    Oooh, pretty. The wife would love it (she's a second year mathmo), but then she'd make me mod her some kind of pen-based input panel and it could all get very messy....

    Hmm, maybe you could use it with one of these...? I'd never considered the possibility of using one of those mini-touch displays as a handwriting input on Win 7 before, but it'd be ideal for it really...

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    Re: Windows Math Input Panel

    You can use anything that is or simulates a mouse input so a touch screen would work but writing (especially math eqns) with a finger is cumbersome, I even prefer a mouse over a touch screen when it comes to writing without a pen. However, it’s worth noting there are styli (plural of stylus?) available for touch screens, they don’t work anywhere as well as a true digitiser but will do if you write a bit bigger.*

    Of course a USB tablet would also work, Amazon has a Wacom Bamboo for a good price, link, there are yet cheaper tablets but Wacoms are nice.

    * There are two types of styli available, one for resistive touch which is essentially a bit of plastic and then one for capacative, a pen with the conductivity of your finger.
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    Re: Windows Math Input Panel

    Those 7" mini-touchscreens are all resistive (afaik) so you could use a stylus (or the wrong end of a pen / pencil!) to write on them...

    That said, that's a very good price for a Wacom tablet. It'd definitely be more accurate than a touchscreen. Although I personally like to be able to see what I'm writing underneath the pen

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    Re: Windows Math Input Panel

    I've always liked this feature of tablet PCs its been around for ages (at least 6 years). Tablet PCs microsoft were stupid about marketing for, they should have sold it better to uni students, you can convert them straight into matlab (actually I think I did to latex then to matlab)
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    Re: Windows Math Input Panel

    Wow that's a pretty useful feature, how many hidden features are there in Win 7?

    Trying to accurately draw anything with a mouse is horrible though, for me anyway!

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    Re: Windows Math Input Panel

    Quote Originally Posted by TheAnimus View Post
    I've always liked this feature of tablet PCs its been around for ages (at least 6 years). Tablet PCs microsoft were stupid about marketing for, they should have sold it better to uni students, you can convert them straight into matlab (actually I think I did to latex then to matlab)
    Convert to Matlab? convert to LaTeX? Please tell how!

    I've been on the tablet PC scene for two years now but until this day, I had no idea equations can be converted like that. The whole time, this function was under my nose, MS could have saved me about a day in total if they had let me know about it!
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    Re: Windows Math Input Panel

    iirc it now comes out in windows 7 as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathML so it should be trival to convert.
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